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PROFESSOR HENRY OLF.RICH 



THE STORY OF THE WORLD 
A THOUSAND YEARS 
HENCE 

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An Interesting Scientific Forecast of 
The Important Progressive Changes 
That Will Likely Take Place 
On Our Earth During The 
Next Thousand Years 


BY 

PROFESSOR HENRY OLERICH 
Author of “A Cityless and Countryless 
World,” ‘‘Modern Thought,” etc. 


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OLERICH PUBLISHING CO., 
2219 Larimore Avenue, 
Omaha, Nebr. 



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HENCE 


PREFACE 

I N this little volume, the Author puts the im¬ 
portant science of Sociology in a nutshell. 
In less than fifteen thousand simple words and 
nine original illustrations, he tells the whole 
story of IDEAL CIVILIZATION so clearly 
that any ordinary reader can easily understand 
it, and so completely that few if any Readers 
can mention any important good thing that 
refined people would want but what is in that 
ideal Society, and from which practically all 
our present bad things are eliminated. 

So far as the Writer is aware, “The Story of 
the World a Thousand Years Hence” is the 
most radical book ever written. No other 
writer has ever proposed so many fundamen¬ 
tally radical changes in Human Society. But 
there is no danger whatever. All its radicalism 
is on the side of health, peace, justice, refine¬ 
ment, sane freedom, sound naturalism, uni¬ 
versal prosperity and friendly mutuality. 

It also seems to be the first book ever written 
which accords to women and children a fair 
deal in life. It clearly points out how every 



PREFACE 


man, woman and child can live a free, easy, in¬ 
dependent, happy life financially, industrially, 
domestically, socially and parentally. It clearly 
and definitely presents the first real glimpse of 
ideal civilization, a real heaven on earth, and 
is, therefore, the most important message ever 
delivered to struggling humanity. It serves 
the important twofold purposes of pleasantly 
educating the immature , and it also serves as 
a practical guide for harmonious industrial, 
domestic and parental co-operation on a large 
scale for the matured. As to the truth of these 
claims, the Author invites the intelligent, open- 
minded Readers to be the judges, but always 
on the assumption that it requires intelligent 
people to run a community or a world har¬ 
moniously. 

HENRY OLERICH, 

2219 Larimore Avenue, 
Omaha, Nebraska. 


1923. 


A STORY OF THE WORLD A THOUSAND YEARS 

HENCE 


FORTELLING THE FUTURE 


CHAPTER I 

I N this unique “Story of the World a Thousand 
Years Hence,” I shall endeavor to show by 
simple words and attractive illustrations how 
our much advanced posterity a thousand years 
hence will likely think, live, work, play, edu¬ 
cate, court, dress, mate, cook, eat, drink, co¬ 
operate, raise and train children, build, pave, 
farm, manufacture, communicate, travel, in¬ 
vent, and do many other things too numerous 
to mention in a brief forecast of a thousand 
years. 

Foretelling the Future from the experiences 
of the Past is not such a difficult feat for a com¬ 
petent Sociologist as many seem to think. 
Prevision, looking into the future, is the only 
way that we can make use of our education. 
That is what the Astronomer does when he pre¬ 
dicts eclipses; the Electrician when he installs 
a power station; the Housewife when she kneads 
her dough; the Author when he writes a book; 
the Farmer when he plows, sows and reaps his 
field. They all judge the Future by the ex¬ 
periences of the Past. 




10 FORTELLING THE FUTURE 


This carefully deduced Forecast is, there¬ 
fore, not intended as a mere guess or random 
prophecy, but as cautiously formulated deduc¬ 
tions drawn from the known Laws of Progress 
during the Past, and then extended a thousand 
years into the Future. Interpreting the Future 
by the Past is thus merely broad GENERAL¬ 
IZATION; a question of intelligent Foresight; 
a problem of knowing Natural Laws and their 
general operation. 


GEOLOGIC CHART 


Cenozoic 

Time 


Mesozoic 

Time 





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Man 

Monkey 

Horse 

Bird 

Crocodile 

Frog: 

Pish 



Basis 


Paleozoic 

Time 


(Fig. 1) 

This Chart shows a vertical column of stratified, sedi¬ 
mentary rocks twenty miles thick, with which the earth 
in an average is covered, and which required some 130,- 
000,000 years in forming. 





















































































EVOLUTION 


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II 

I T behooves us to take an optimistic view of 
human affairs no matter how cruel and dis¬ 
cordant they may still seem from a present 
viewpoint. We are surely marching in the 
right direction, upward and onward, for every 
thoughtful observer is aware that we are living 
in a Progressive World, a world in which we 
know more today than we did yesterday, and 
will know more tomorrow than we know today, 
a world of progressive culture and refinement. 

We are all aware that the progress of the 
world in many directions during the last thou¬ 
sand years has been remarkable, and we have 
every reason to believe, as I shall point out, 
that the progress of the next thousand years 
will vastly outstrip that of any previous ten 
centuries, for progress is itself progressing. 

As may be seen by the Geologic Chart, Fig. • 
1, Evolution has already been busy for millions 
of ages. In the organic world, it began its pro¬ 
gressive development in accordance with the 
Law of the Survival of the Fittest way back of 
the single cell, and out of it slowly evolved the 
Plant and Animal Kingdoms with all their 
multiplicity of Forms and Functions with the 
present man as the crowning model of physical 
and mental development so far evolved, 




14 


EVOLUTION 


and that this Evolution will continue im¬ 
measurably further, there can be no doubt. 

Man as a distinct human being has likely 
existed and slowly developed in body and mind 
for more than a million years, so that we are 
now very much superior to our primitive ape¬ 
like ancestors, and posterity will also be vastly 
superior to our present generation. 

As the Reader may see by referring to the 
Geologic Chart, the fossil remains in their 
ascending scale are approximately indicated 
where they first successively appeared on 
Earth. There were no worms when the sponge 
first appeared, no birds when the fish was the 
dominant creature, and no Man when the bird 
first made its appearance. It required mil¬ 
lions of ages to produce these progressive 
changes from the one to the other by the Laws 
of Slight Variations and the Survival of the 
Fittest. 

We must also bear in mind that every crea¬ 
ture from the lowest to the highest must pos¬ 
sess at least so much mentality , so much Mind, 
whether we call it Instinct or Reason, that it 
can procure (1) food, (2) some sort of protec¬ 
tion and guidance, and (3) reproduce its kind. 
With less Mentality the species would have to 
become extinct. This shows that Body and 


OUTSIDE OWNERSHIP 


15 


Mind of all creatures, including man, work and 
develop together for their mutual benefit. If 
there were no Body to feed, guide and repro¬ 
duce, there would seemingly be no use for 
Mind. 


Ill 

M OST people, even many posing Econo¬ 
mists and Sociologists, seem to think that 
human society is necessarily so complex and so 
discordant that we can never hope to get it 
running harmoniously. They say the poor, the 
criminal, the courtesan, the profiteer, the super¬ 
stitious, the gambler, the drunkard, the thief, 
the militarist, the scheming politician, the 
deceptive diplomat and the stupid, heartless 
rulers, we have always had and always will 
have. 

• 

This erroneous idea, I desire to dispel by 
showing that the introduction and operation of 
ideal Civilization is real simple, easy and pleas¬ 
ant when the right persons use the right things 
in the right way,and the higher the civilization 
the simpler it becomes, as a result of unity of 
thought and action. The strife, discord and 
complexity of human affairs begin when one 
individual, group or nation strives to get or 
control something from another individual, 
group or nation by monopoly, superstition, 


16 


OUTSIDE OWNERSHIP 


special privilege or armed force. It is always 
a question of non-aggressive self-ownership or 
aggressive outside ownership—liberty or com¬ 
pulsion. 

The strife and discord resulting from outside 
ownership creep in like this: The parents want 
to own and control the child until it is 21. 
Later the child objects to this outside ownership 
for it naturally wants to own and control itself. 
Then the battle between the parents and child 
begins. In like manner does the teacher claim 
to own and control the pupil; the minister the 
church members; the master his chattel slaves; 
the feudal lord his serfs; the employer his em¬ 
ployees; the landlord his tenants; the gods 
their devotees; the compulsory government its 
subjects; and lastly but by no means least as 
the rapidly increasing number of divorces 
plainly indicates, under the give-and-take mar¬ 
riage regime, the husband claims to partly or 
wholly own the wife, and the wife the husband, 
instead of each owning himself or herself. 

In all such cases, the parties thus owned in¬ 
variably object to this outside ownership un¬ 
less the owned are very dull and stupid, and 
the more intelligent they become, the stronger 
grows the objection, for in the very nature of 
things, all self-respecting men, women and 
children are continually striving for complete 


OUTSIDE OWNERSHIP 


17 


SELF-OWNERSHIP instead of some sort of 
compulsory outside Ownership, and the same 
is also true of Nations. 

As civilization advances do we realize more 
and more that the two great enemies of man¬ 
kind are Superstition in its various forms, and 
Outside Ownership, that our beliefs should be 
founded on demonstrable facts, and that no 
one is good enough to own and control another; 
that a home that has a “head” or a “boss” in 
it is no longer a fit place for an intelligent 
person to live. 

We may thus see that reason, justice, liberty 
and friendly mutuality can easily remove all 
sociologic strife and discord, if the right per¬ 
sons use the right things in the right way, and 
how this may be done in a very pleasant and 
harmonious way forms the interesting story of 
the following Forecast. The whole problem is 
thus a question of further Education and 
Culture. 

But in order to interpret the future progress 
correctly, we must always make our predictions 
in accordance with the fundamental desires 
and wants for which living creatures are ever 
striving. In the case of Man, these funda¬ 
mentals are: That we all naturally desire to be 
healthy, strong and handsome, to enjoy the 
widest range of liberty, abundant prosperity, 



18 CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS 


a large store of mentality, congenial sociability, 
continuous new experiences, interesting dis¬ 
coveries, plenty of leisure for amusement and 
recreation and mutual freedom to love and be 
loved. In brief, to live the longest, happiest 
Life, and that we can do only when we live in 
harmony with Nature's Laws which we should 
all learn to know and obey to the best of our 
ability, so as to get the most out of life worth 
living for. Evolve our heaven here on earth. 

IV 

T HE World a Thousand Years Hence will be 
practically a cityless and countryless World. 
The people, instead of living in crowded, 
noisy, unhealthy and immoral cities and in 
lonely, isolated country homes, as we now do, 
will then live in social groups on large Landed 
Estates (Modern Paradises), where they are 
surrounded by beautiful flowers, pure air, fresh 
water, life-giving vegetation and a host of con¬ 
genial Co-operators as equal partners, and all 
have their daily work in, or near their homes. 
There is no longer valid use for the existence 
of , cities. Formerly when people had to wall 
themselves in for protection cities were useful, 
but that time is long past. 

Briefly stated, each group of refined men, 
women and children Co-operators lives in a 


CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS 19 


beautiful Co-operative Mansion with public 
kitchen, dining room, laundry, nurseries, etc. 
All the members of the group are equal partners 
and co-operate industrially, domestically and 
also largely parentally in the way of raising 
and educating the children. 

Every man, woman and child worker (and 
every able-bodied person is a worker), whether 
married or single, also personally draws his or 
her own pay checks for the co-operative labor 
each performs for the Association or Co-partner¬ 
ship, whether that labor be industrial, domestic 
or exclusively parental. 

It is not difficult to see that such harmonious 
co-operation makes every man, woman and 
child free and independent financially, in¬ 
dustrially, socially and parentally, and that 
each worker under such favorable condi¬ 
tions of industrial and domestic' co-operation 
can easily produce at least $10 worth of wealth 
in a three-hour workday at pleasant self-em¬ 
ployment of his or her own choice. The method 
of working in Modern Paradise is highly 
efficient and remarkably productive, but not 
rushing as we now have it under the profit¬ 
grabbing wage-system. 

Men and women as equal owners work side 
by side, often as lovers, which turns work into 



20 CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS 


delightful play. Intelligence, freedom, effi¬ 
ciency and universal prosperity are combined 
in the highest conceivable degree in Modern 
Paradise as we shall now further explain on the 
theory that the easy obtainment of material 
subsisten ce is t he basic principle of human wel¬ 
fare and approximate contentment. 



CO-OPERATIVE LANDED ESTATE 



(Modern Paradise) 

(Fig. 2) 

This big Farm is crossed in the center by firmly-paved 
boulevards. The white strips on both sides of the boule¬ 
vards are each a 1,000 feet wide, for garden, orchard, 
greenhouse, play-schools, nut-bearing forest, vine-clad 
trees, etc. It is the nucleus of Ideal Democracy. 








































CO-OPERATIVE FARMS 


23 


V 

T HIS large Co-operative Farm (see page 21) 
on which a group of 500 or more intelligent 
men, women and children live and work and 
play as equal partners is four miles square and 
contains about 10,000 acres of fine land. 

The big Farm is crossed in the center by 
firmly paved boulevards. The white strips on 
both sides of the boulevards are each a 1,000 
feet wide for garden, orchard, nut-bearing 
forest, vine-clad trees and many other useful 
and artistic things. There is also a very large 
greenhouse covering acres of fertile land with 
non-breakable glass. This extensive green¬ 
house, with its beautiful flowers, rich vegetables 
and luscious fruit, keeps the summer right near 
the home, no matter how the snow flies and 
the wind blows outside. 

At the boulevard crossing in the center of 
the big Farm are the four large buildings: 
The Co-operative Mansion, in which the 500 
or more Co-operators live. The Model Factory 
in which they do their manufacturing. The 
Universal Warehouse, in which they store their 
accumulated wealth of farm, garden, factory, 
orchard, green-house, etc. The Hydro-Electric 
Power Station with which they generate cheap 
electricity for heating, lighting, cooking, weld- 


24 


CO-OPERATIVE FARMS 


ing, running the factory, automobiles, trucks, 
tractors, ships and airplanes. 

As we shall see in future paragraphs, in the 
not distant future, it is almost certain that we 
shall discover how to generate abundant elec¬ 
tricity automatically without the use of animal, 
fuel or water powers by the direct SOLAR 
ENERGY constantly streaming in vast quan¬ 
tities from the Sun to the Earth. 


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This Co-operative Mansion is built on a new style of 
architecture. It is 400 feet square on the outside and has 
a 300-foot open court in the center, which makes every 
room a front room having large outside windows. In the 
winter, it is heated with electricity. In the summer it is 
mechanically cooled and every department is thoroughly 
ventilated, night and day, winter and summer. 















CO-OPERATIVE MANSIONS 27 


VI 

r PHE particular style of Co-operative Man- 
* sion shown on the preceding page is 400 
feet square on the outside and has a 300-foot 
Open Court in the center. It is six stories high 
and comfortably accommodates about 100 
families or 500 men, women and children, be¬ 
sides ample accommodations for visitors. The 
Mansion may, however, be of any size to ac¬ 
commodate a larger or smaller number of Co- 
operators. 

Part of the Co-operative Mansion is designed 
for public departments, such as a cheerful, 
public, electric kitchen, a beautiful dining 
room, an elegant hall or theater for all kinds 
of plays, concerts, lectures, movies, indoor prize 
contests, etc.; a large library, laboratory, 
physical and astronomical apparatus, printing 
and binding outfits, artistic art and photograph 
gallery, museum, conservatories, a large de¬ 
partment store, various public parlors, billiard 
hall, ice and roller skating rinks, cold storage, 
the most convenient laundry ever installed, a 
first-class restaurant open all day and evening 
in which members and visitors can get any 
kind of meal and have it served in any way; 
have it even brought up in anyone's private 
room, but a specially prepared meal in the 
restaurant always costs much more than a 


28 


CO-OPERATIVE MANSIONS 


similar meal in the public dining room where 
many other like meals are served. If two or 
more want a private meal, they can retire to 
one of the alcoves in the dining room. 

Complete mail, water, elevator and phone 
systems. Sanitarium, public nurseries, kinder¬ 
gartens, instruction halls, public conversation 
rooms, commercial department and many 
other conveniences which a progressive Asso¬ 
ciation might from time to time desire. 

Every member from the youngest to the 
oldest has also a large private apartment in the 
Mansion which affords the occupant the most 
seclusive privacy when desired. The Mansion 
is heated with electricity in the winter, and 
mechanically cooled in the summer with a 
thorough system of ventilation, so that the 
future buildings will have no chimneys; and 
the apartments may be made as silent as the 
tomb, when the occupant wants complete quiet. 


FLOOR 


IN CO-OPERATIVE MANSION SHOWING 
PRIVATE APARTMENTS, ETC. 



(Fig, 4) 

(A) is the 300-foot open court; (B) private apartments; 
(C) 10-foot halls; (D) public nurseries; (E) public toilets; 
(F) self-running elevators; (G) suites of three and five 
room apartments; (H) large compartment for five 
roomers. Everybody can thus easily be accommodated 
in the matter of an individual or family home in the Co¬ 
operative Mansion. 















































































FLOOR IN MANSIONS 


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VII 

A LL the apartments of the Co-operative Man¬ 
sion are elegantly furnished and equipped 
with sending and receiving radio sets, private 
bath and musical instruments, if the occupant 
desires them, and every man, woman and youth 
does the cleaning and housekeeping of his or 
her own apartment which makes for general 
domestic order and cleanliness. There are 
janitors for tending to the Public Departments. 

Every man, woman and child has thus a 
private apartment at which no one calls per¬ 
sonally unless specially invited by the occupant. 
When the occupants feel socially inclined, they 
then either go down to the public parlors or 
other public gatherings or they invite congenial 
friends to call at their private apartment—their 
real home. There are also an ample supply 
of fine spare rooms and other elegant accommo¬ 
dations for visitors and sightseers who are per¬ 
mitted to visit a day or two at intervals. 

I believe that no habitation has ever before 
been designed which has so many elevating in¬ 
fluences, so many high-class conveniences and 
such interesting and influential socialbility as 
this unique Co-operative Mansion offers to 
every one of its inmates whether owner or 
visitor. 


32 


FLOOR IN MANSIONS 


As the Reader will notice, every roomMs 
really an outside room having at least two large 
outside windows in it. It is, indeed, designed, 
built, and operated on the refinedjprinciple of 
complete SELF-OWNERSHIP IN IDEAL 
DEMOCRACY; on the basis of health, wealth, 
freedom and happiness. 


ONE HUNDRED COTTAGE SITES 



(Fig.5) 

This drawing shows how the 500 members could live 
in 100 family cottages on large residence lots located 
around a large public square instead of all living in one 
Co-operative Mansion. (A) is the large square on which 
the public buildings—store, school, power station, play¬ 
grounds, swimming pool, theater, etc.—could be located; 
(B) boulevards; (C) walks; (D) 100 cottage sites; (E) 
public parks. The size of the public square would depend 
on the width of the residence lots. 





















































































































COTTAGE SITES 


35 


VIII 

B Y referring to the drawing on page 33, we 
may see that such a village mode of living 
and working as equal owning partners could in 
most respects be immensely superior to that of 
our present co-operation as employers and em¬ 
ployees. 

It would entirely dispense with the slums, 
skyscrapers, wage-system, exploiting commer¬ 
cialism, isolated country life, and would very 
largely, if not entirely, abolish vice and crime, 
but would fall far short of producing the same 
degree of efficiency, comforts, conveniences, 
personal liberty, means of education and con¬ 
genial sociability of the Co-operative Mansion 
by a group of refined Co-operators. 

The 100 family cottages would have to have 
100 kitchens, cookstoves, refrigerators; dining 
rooms, cellars, furnaces, parlors, libraries, etc. 
In the Co-operative Mansion, there would need 
to be only one of each of these. 

More than 100 cooks would have to work 
and drudge in the 100 kitchens. The cottage 
life would not only leave women and children 
as lonely kitchen, laundry and nursery toilers, 
but would also leave them financially dependent 
on the income and generosity of the man as 
now. If the husband dies or spends his income 


36 


COTTAGE SITES 


for booze and tobacco or elopes with another 
woman, the wife and children are usually in a 
lonely, precarious plight. No intelligent woman 
should any longer be satisfied with such a 
lonely, toilsome, precarious method of living 
and working as the family cottage inevitably 
imposes on women and children. 

With domestic co-operation, more than 
seventy-five of the cottage cooks and house¬ 
keepers could enter the fields of productive 
industries where they could become free and 
independent by personally drawing their own 
pay checks as equal partners of the association. 
This domestic co-operation of the Co-operative 
Mansion would not only cut the average work¬ 
day in two, but would also greatly enhance the 
health, freedom and pleasures of cultured life 
by working side by side as personal friends or 
lovers in fine Co-operative Mansions instead 
of toiling early and late in family cottages and 
lonely country homes. 


TWELVE ADJOINING MODERN PARADISES 
EACH FOUR MILES SQUARE 



(Fig. 6) 

The heavy black lines passing through the center of 
each Paradise represent firmly-paved highways or bule- 
vards. The four black squares at each boulevard crossing 
represent the four large buildings of each Modern Para¬ 
dise. 











































ADJOINING PARADISES 


39 


IX 

T HE sketch on the foregoing page shows how 
any number of such Modern Paradises 
may be harmoniously joined, and that by the 
addition of every new one, all would derive 
far-reaching benefits by reason of further 
division of labor, extension of fine boulevards 
and by expanding the fields of trade, education, 
amusements and sociability. The whole coun¬ 
try may in time be so blocked off as more and 
more of the people get ready for that higher 
and more harmonious life. 

Instead of having the country platted off 
into square-mile sections containing 640 acres 
and surrounded by usually poor dirt roads as 
we now have it, the Modern Paradisers will 
have the country divided off into blocks four 
miles square containing about 10,000 acres, and 
each crossed in the center by firmly-paved 
highways. 

I can visualize with my mind's eye that long 
before the close of this Thousand Year Forecast 
the country will be criss-crossed with firmly- 
paved highways, beautifully fringed with or¬ 
chards, gardens, lawns, parks, lakes, play¬ 
grounds, fountains, play schools, nut-bearing 
forest, and at every four-mile boulevard crossing 
there would be four artistic buildings where 


40 


ADJOINING PARADISES 


tourists, travelers, sight-seers and freighters can 
dine and lodge at cost of production the same 
as at home. The world is then run on the basis 
of mutual SERVICE instead of grasping Profit. 

When we live a really civilized life, everybody 
will then be strong, healthy, wealthy, free and 
happy, and all without resorting to exploitation 
by profit, interest, rent or taxes. 

Under such conditions of universal owner¬ 
ship, all the Modern Paradises would naturally 
vie with each other in the matter of producing 
the finest and most attractive scenery along 
their respective boulevards, so that the passers- 
by would continually see new, beautiful scenes 
as they passed along on foot, vehicles or air¬ 
planes. Every Modern Paradise keeps up its 
own eight miles of boulevards in fine shape. 

On these firmly-paved highways, electric 
automobiles, large busses, and convenient 
trucks of all kinds and sizes best suited for 
the particular traffic will almost entirely super¬ 
sede the railroads, street cars and draught 
animals. Delightful pleasure and valuable in¬ 
formation will then naturally result from travel 
and sight-seeing of all kinds. 

For a party of congenial friends to tour 
10,000 miles in a large electric buss or other 
automobiles over firmly paved highways, would 


MOTIVE POWER 


41 


then be a mere incident of frequent occurrence, 
or for a couple to honeymoon for a month or 
two in a fine car when the bride pays her own 
bills would naturally be a great pleasure to 
both; for independence means pleasure and 
power. 

We may thus see that the present generation 
has not yet started to really live an intelligent 
cultured life, and what will it be a little later 
on when we know how to get our Motive Power 
for driving autos, trucks and airplanes as well 
as all other machinery with the direct power 
that continually comes from the Sun to the 
Earth in endless quantities. 

X 

A GLIMPSE over the History of the Past 
shows that the Motive Power, the me¬ 
chanical energy, which Man uses at different 
ages for doing his work, is always a powerful 
determining factor of advancing Civilization. 

The Motive Power so far used by Man has 
been either muscular or purely mechanical. 
The Muscular Power manifests itself when 
men or animals perform work; the Mechanical,' 
when the steam and gasoline engines, the water 
wheel, the windmill and the electric current 
do work. 


42 


MOTIVE POWER 


But nowhere seems there to be a creation of 
power or energy, only a transformation, and its 
original source practically all comes from the 
Sun, as we see it in the growth of plants, evapor¬ 
ation of moisture, the flow of rivers, the move¬ 
ments of animals, the atmospheric breezes, etc. 

The Muscular Power of Man or Beast comes 
from the food they eat, and the solar energy 
coming from the Sun causes the plant to grow. 
In like manner, does the steam engine derive 
its power from the fuel—wood, coal and crude 
oil—which it uses to heat the water into steam, 
and this heat is merely liberated past sunbeams 
that came to the earth millions of ages ago. The 
same is also true of the gasoline engine. So 
with the water wheel and the windmill. The 
Sun evaporates the water into clouds, and 
later it again falls as rain or snow which feeds 
the running rivers and drives the water wheel. 
Again, the Sun heats the air unequally in dif¬ 
ferent localities which causes a breeze, and this 
wind drives the windmill. All this is only 
TRANSMUTATION of one kind of Power 
into other kinds, with the Sun as its ulti¬ 
mate source. 

The Dynamo is a machine which generates 
Electricity which may be used for heating, 
lighting, welding, cooking, running automobiles, 
factories, trains, trucks, ships, tractors, lawn 
mowers, airplanes, etc. 


MOTIVE POWER 


43 


But the Dynamo merely converts or trans¬ 
forms the energy or power of the engine or 
water wheel into the rotating Dynamo which 
generates the electric current from the surround¬ 
ing air. 

We may thus see that we are everywhere 
surrounded by millions of electric Horse Power 
which we have already discovered to generate 
at any spot on Earth by rapidly rotating a 
Dynamo, but to make the Dynamo rotate 
still requires costly fuel or scarce water power. 

But by looking over the progress of the Past, 
we have every reason to believe that some 
genius will, in the not distant future, stumble 
on to a method of generating Electric Current 
in abundance for almost nothing with some 
Chemico-Electric Generator automatically 
operated by the enless stream of solar energy 
which is continually pouring from the Sun to 
the Earth, day and night, winter and summer. 

We want to make our Chemico-Electric 
Generator work automatically in some such 
way as the green leaf of the growing plant or 
towering tree make use of the solar energy in 
organizing and building their tiny or huge 
bodies out of the soil, water and air with which 
they are surrounded. 


44 


COMING ELECTRICITY 


XI 


E LECTRICITY in some form will, no doubt, 
be the Motive Power of the future for a 
long time to come unless some better Force is 
discovered. 

At present we have eight great Electric In¬ 
ventions: The Dynamo, Automobile, Motor, 
Light, Range, Heater, Storage Battery and 
the Telephone. Some of these eight will un¬ 
doubtedly become useless in the future and the 
remaining ones will be vastly improved, and 
many important new ones will also undoubtedly 
come in from time to time. 


If we succeed (which I think we undoubtedly 
will do) in inventing the suggested Chemico- 
Electric Generator which automatically applies 
the concentrated Solar Energy to machinery 
the same as the Dynamo and Electric Motor 
now apply the electric current to machinery, 
then we will no longer have use for the Dynamo, 
Electric Motor and Storage Battery Cell. Per¬ 
haps a small Chemico-Electric Generator will 
then always be automatically charged with 
Electricity by the impinging Solar Energy to 
the maximum limit to run an automobile, 
tractor, factory, heating plant or airplane in¬ 
definitely, so that an airplane can fly straight 
up and down and stay up for a day, a week or a 
month without landing and with a speed of 


COMING ELECTRICITY 


45 


likely more than 500 miles an hour. When the 
blizzard is coming, two or three hours' flight 
toward the Equator will then bring us among 
the flowers again. Eat breakfast in Chicago 
at twenty degrees below at 9 a. m., and lunch 
at noon in Los Angeles, Cal., or St. Augustine, 
Fla. 

We will then fly around the Earth in any 
direction in less than 50 hours, and various 
colored lights and signals will serve as guides, 
but when day leisure and amusements are so 
plentiful, there will be little night work in 
Modern Paradise. A ship on mid-ocean will 
continue to receive its Motive Power from the 
Solar Energy as fast as it uses it without ever 
landing for fuel. But when the airplane is 
thus perfected, few if any ships will then re¬ 
main, and seasickness will be unknown. 

The Automobile in its various forms and 
styles for riding, freighting and tractor farm¬ 
ing will, no doubt, develop into one of the 
greatest, if not the greatest of all mechanical 
inventions. In 1896 there were only four 
automobiles in the United States. Now (1923) 
there are over 12,000,000, and in a few years 
there will likely be more than twice that 
number, and electricity in some form will un¬ 
doubtedly be its future Motive Power. Some 
genius will also, no doubt, soon invent a cheap, 


46 


SOUND NATURALISM 


durable, reliable TIRE. Then with all the 
paved highways, the perfected Tire and the 
self-charging Chemico-Electric Generator, the 
Automobile will be approximately perfect. 

All other inventions will also undoubtedly be 
vastly improved from time to time, and numer¬ 
ous new and better ones will continue to come 
in as the years pass. But mechanical Progress 
is not all GAIN. It also brings with it enor¬ 
mous waste, as the old is being superseded by 
the new as in the case of Motive Power. We 
have come from the dog kennel to the ox pen, 
from the ox pen to the livery stable, from the 
livery stable to the roundhouse, from the 
roundhouse to the power plant, from the power 
plant largely to the filling station, and from 
the filling station, we may at any time in the 
near future swing to the direct Solar Energy 
automatically generated perhaps by some 
Chemico-Electric Generator as I have sug¬ 
gested. 

XII 

A S Civilization advances, will Naturalism 
continue to eliminate all forms of Super¬ 
stitious Mysticism in the future as it has been 
doing in the recent past, and this will tend 
toward uniformity of thought and conduct, for 
Science, unlike Superstitious Mysticism, is 
everywhere the same the whole world over. 


SOUND NATURALISM 


47 


Hence, the more naturalism the more uni¬ 
formity and harmony of thought and action. 

Science starts out with the postulate that 
the Universe (including everything that is as 
a whole) seems to be an eternal , everactive, self- 
operating MECHANISM. That the Mind of 
all animal organisms including that of Man 
seems to be merely Brain (nervous system) 
Activity, which slowly evolved in accordance 
with the Law of the Survival of the Fittest, 
and apparently only for the sole purpose of 
guiding, protecting, reproducing and conduc¬ 
ing to the welfare and happiness of the physical 
Organism during its natural life here on Earth, 
the same as the heart evolved for the purpose 
of Circulation. That the physical death of all 
Creatures including that of Man seems to be 
nothing more or less than an eternal sleep or 
endless suspension of individual consciousness. 

But the MIND (brain motion) as well as 
the ultimate particles of the Body of all animal 
beings including Man are nevertheless “im¬ 
mortal” in their disintegrated elements of eternal 
and indestructible Matter, Energy and Motion. 
In that sense, Mind, whether of Man or other 
creatures, is as “immortal” as Body. That 
Nature in her operations seems to be neither 
wise nor ignorant, kind nor cruel, and seemingly 
without design or designer. That her Evolu- 


4 8 


SOUND NATURALISM 


tionary Adaptations seem to be the chance 
results (Fortuitism) of the operation of Natural 
Law rather than the outcome of purposive 
adaptation. That this “orderly succession of 
events” as we call it, seems to be itself a “chance 
result” of some endless chain of Cause and 
Effect. 

That Nature merely builds, thrills as love 
or hate, gives birth, kills, burns, ravages and 
destroys in a certain order which we call Na¬ 
ture’s Law with which we must learn to live 
in harmony in order to get the most out of life 
worth living for, for every violation of a natural 
function is a violation of a natural law, and 
every violation of a natural law is attended 
with pain, the very opposite tor which all senti¬ 
ent Creatures are continually striving, for the 
chief aim of life is to live the longest happiest 
LIFE. We are thus continually seeking to 
bring into consciousness pleasurable SENSA¬ 
TIONS and keeping out painful ones. Hence, 
the fundamental ethical standard is, that every 
act that is conducive to welfare is a good act, 
and every act that detracts therefrom is a 
bad act. 

Every act of all creatures from the lowest 
to the highest including Man is, therefore, 
always fundamentally selfish (egoistic) in com¬ 
pliance with SELF-PRESERVATION as the 


SOUND NATURALISM 


49 


first Law of Nature. The term Altruism is not 
only a misnomer and confusing, but no world 
could be run harmoniously on altruistic prin¬ 
ciples; on principles that we would continually 
do more for others than for self. All that we 
need to know on this important point is that 
our highest individual self-interest can not be 
attained without all others are equally free, 
prosperous, intelligent and happy. We have 
thus partially learned that the pursuit of self- 
interest results in the general benefit of society , 
and this mutual benefit resulting from promot¬ 
ing self-interest has evolved us into social 

beings. But we must still go much further. 

% 

The posing Altruist is naturally a whiner. 
He wants to be thanked and repaid. The 
Egoist, on the other hand, says that the Recip¬ 
ient of his favors owes him nothing; that the 
giver has already received his reward in 
Pleasurable Sensations by the very act of giv¬ 
ing to the needy, which eased the giver’s mind 
and therefore made the giver as well as the 
receiver happy, but the Egoist also says that 
we need justice instead of charity, because 
charity never goes to the root of the evil. 

Hence, in the future, everybody will be a 
firm believer in Evolution and the Mechanistic 
Theory of Life and Conduct; for a knowledge 
of Evolution makes one wise ; it teaches how 


50 


SOUND NATURALISM 


all things developed by natural Law. A 
thorough mental grasp of the Mechanistic 
Theory of Life and Conduct makes one kind. 
It teaches that all creatures including Man 
are mere living MACHINES operated by 
ancestral and personal ENVIRONMENT; that 
we are like musical instruments, as we are 
played upon so must we respond; that the old 
menacing theory of “free will” is not supported 
by a single fact. 

After we once thoroughly understand that 
important principle, we treat all creatures 
kindly, and when we want to change or im¬ 
prove them, either physically or mentally, we 
seek to change their environment , and with 
that well-adjusted environmental change will 
come that desired improvement, and not with¬ 
out that. 

As Mr. Herbert Spencer, the great philo¬ 
sopher, truly says, it is true that we can do as 
we desire, but we have nothing to say about the 
coming and going of our desires. They come 
and go without our bidding in accordance with 
our previous make-up and our present environ¬ 
ment. They are the inevitable antecedents that 
impel the present and the future. No sane 
person can desire that he would rather be sick 
than well, poor than prosperous, miserable than 
happy. 


AUTHOR’S KITCHENETTE 



Fig. 7 

This is the Author’s combination kitchen, dining room 
and bedchamber in his bachelor’s suite of two rooms. In 
this room, he cooks, dines and sleeps. He also does all 
his own housekeeping, even his own house cleaning, and 
his rooms are always as neat, clean and orderly as any 
parlor; but bachelorhood of either man or woman is very 
far from being an ideal life. Domestic co-operation on a 
large scale is the only open road to freedom, economy, 
leisure, convenience, efficiency and sociability. 













VEGETARIANISM 


53 


XIII 

I N the future, Man will undoubtedly ac¬ 
custom himself to live exclusively on a vege¬ 
tarian diet, because it is healthier, cheaper, 
much cleaner in and about the home and re¬ 
quires no killing, so that the clean, refined and 
sympathetic man and woman of the future 
will more and more adopt scientific VEGE¬ 
TARIANISM, living on the simple nutritious 
foods of grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc., 
and plenty of pure water at ordinary tempera¬ 
ture as a wholesome drink to keep the bowels 
active and the system clean and vigorous. 

No Stimulants and Narcotics—opium, liquor, 
tobacco, tea and coffee as beverages—will be 
used. Posterity will then not make an opium 
den and a smoke house of their homes, work¬ 
shops and public places, and not impair diges¬ 
tion and mar beauty with brain-stealing liquor 
and cups of deteriorating tea and coffee. 

There will also be much less cooking, and 
little or no frying , for boiled food is much 
healthier and also much cleaner in the home 
than frying it. Much more of the foods will 
be eaten raw in the future which will go far 
toward preserving good digestion and sound, 
beautiful teeth. Many persons, especially 
children, will likely not come to the table in 


54 


VEGETARIANISM 


Modern Paradise for days at a time. They 
will frequently eat fresh raw fruits, vegetables, 
melons, nuts, etc., which they take from the 
garden, orchard and greenhouse whenever they 
get hungry, winter and summer. 

We may thus readily surmise that Man will 
be the only large land animal (perhaps a few 
large sea animals will likely always remain) 
on Earth in the future. Increase of population 
and advancing civilization has already crowded 
out practically all the wild animals in all the 
leading countries of the world. In the cities, 
practically all the domestic animals, except 
some of the horses, have also disappeared, and 
now comes the motor car, truck and tractor 
which rapidly supersede the lonely and much 
abused horse, and this decrease in the number 
and kind of animals will undoubtedly continue 
until Man will be the only large land animal 
on Earth. 

With the disappearance of the animals will 
also come the clearing away of the offensive 
stables, sties, roosts, pens and pastures, as well 
as the species of insects and parasites that live 
on animals and their offal. Think what our 
city streets would be if there were as many 
teams on the streets as there are now auto¬ 
mobiles on them. Would not the dirt and 
offensive odor be intolerable? 


VEGETARIANISM 


55 


When the leaky and noisy steam and gasoline 
engines are superseded by electric power, will 
the streets, driveways and garages also be 
much cleaner, healthier and quieter. The only 
animals in my ideal Modern Paradise would be 
song birds, fowls for eggs and bees for honey. 
No hay and other feed for animals would have 
to be raised and no chores to do; only food for 
Man would then be produced, so that the world 
would then be much cleaner, healthier, easier, 
quieter and safer. 

We may also notice that the general sym¬ 
pathy and regard of Man for the welfare and 
lives of other creatures has already developed 
to such an extent that perhaps more than 75 
per cent of the people would no longer eat meat, 
if they personally had to do the killing, espe¬ 
cially the killing of the large animals, such as 
sheep, calves, hogs, deer and cattle, and that 
sympathy and kindness will continue to de¬ 
velop to such an extent that the hunter, fisher, 
butcher and hangman will become social out¬ 
casts. 

There is also no doubt, but what we can get 
better and much cheaper and cleaner substi¬ 
tutes as a diet from the vegetable kingdom 
than from the animals, as in the case of Mazola, 
a purely vegetable product made from corn, 
which is much better and cheaper than the 


56 


HONEST MONEY 


best lard, tallow or even butter; so it will also 
be with meat, milk, hides, furs, feathers, wool 
and every other animal product. In time, they 
will, no doubt, all have better vegetable sub¬ 
stitutes than the present animal products are, 
for there is no element in the animals that is 
also not first in the vegetable. 

XIV 

T HE money of the future will, no doubt, be 
Labor Checks, which every man, woman 
and child worker will personally draw for the co¬ 
operative labor each performs for the Associa¬ 
tion or Co-partnership, whether that labor be 
industrial, domestic or maternal. 

Such money is the only really honest and 
convenient money, because it naturally flows 
into the hands of the men, women and children 
workers who produce the wealth which the 
money represents, and the basis of it is 
LABOR, the very thing which produces all 
wealth—food, raiment, shelter and luxuries. 
Small children and disabled persons receive 
pension money from the Association. 

Hence, every man, woman and child person¬ 
ally draws his or her own pay checks, and pays 
his or her own bills for meals, clothes, personal 
ornaments, etc. These denominational Labor 


HONEST MONEY 


57 


Checks can be issued monthly or quarterly, but 
children should be paid immediately after the 
work is done, for they need an immediate 
stimulus for inducing them to work, when they 
want money. 

Anyone that has this time money—minutes, 
hours, days and weeks, labor checks—can buy 
in the fine Department Store of the Co-oper¬ 
ative Mansion at cost, but always for cash, the 
same as in our postoffice, and when the clerk 
in the Department Store receives the money, 
he or she immediately cancels it, the same as 
the postmaster cancels postage stamps, and 
the next payday new money (new labor checks) 
is issued, and the remuneration for labor is 
proportional to the distastefulness of the par¬ 
ticular kind of labor performed. The harder 
and the more undesirable the labor the higher 
the pay, so that all can work where and when 
they wish; at easy jobs for less pay or at more 
undesirable jobs for higher pay. 

This time money—labor checks—could be 
put up in neat, convenient little booklets, 
something like postage stamp booklets, so 
that the different denominations of minutes, 
hours, days and weeks can be paid out con¬ 
veniently. No valuable metals will then be 
stamped into cumbrous coins. 


58 


HONEST MONEY 


In Modern Paradise, children feel proud of 
supporting themselves at the age of 8 or 10 
years. Before that age, children live on pension 
money issued by the Modern Paradise at large 
to the mother for the support of the child be¬ 
fore the child is born, on the theory that we 
have all received care, nurture and support 
during our infancy, and that we in turn should 
do as much for some other infants no matter 
whether we are parents or not. We owe that 
bill to the rising generation, and if we do not 
pay that bill in a similar manner to other 
infants and helpless children, we die shirks and 
slackers. 

Such a system of Money which always flows 
into the hands of the men, women and children 
that produce the wealth is not only honest, 
cheap and convenient, but also justifies the 
husband to draw a sigh of great relief that he 
is once for all rid of paying the bills of his wife 
and children personally, and the wife is even 
more pleased with the privilege of drawing her 
own pay checks for the labor she performs in¬ 
stead of begging her pittance from her “hard 
up” husband, and the children are also joyous 
for having always a rich, open opportunity to 
earn in an easy way at any time all the spending 
money they want instead of trying to beg it 
from usually poor, reluctant and often abusive 
parents. 


EDUCATION 


59 


As before intimated, begging, whether for 
money or jobs, is always humiliating to refined 
men, women and children, and charity never 
goes to the root of the evil; for charity, even at 
its best, is only a necessary evil in a discordant 
world. For righting things, we need JUSTICE. 

Such a system of money is not only honest, 
cheap, stable and convenient, but also makes 
every man, woman and child completely free 
and independent financially, industrially, do¬ 
mestically, socially and parentally; and any 
system of money that does not do these desir¬ 
able things is not a good system of money for 
an intelligent people. 


XV 

I N the future, Man will be educated to the 
highest standard of intelligence and refine¬ 
ment, for all sociologic harmony and efficiency 
depend on proper education. 

The essential aims of all real Education and 
Culture are: (1) to develop a strong, healthy, 
handsome Body; (2) a sound, active Mind; 
(3) a skillful Hand, and (4) a noble Character. 

At birth the Mind of the human infant is a 
substantial BLANK. It must learn practically 
everything by 'personal Education, so that 
Instinct and Heredity play but an insignificant 


60 


EDUCATION 


part in the development of Mind and the for¬ 
mation of Character in Man. If the 'personal 
Environment is good, the pupil can not be bad; 
while the habits and sentiments of all the 
species of animals below Man are almost en¬ 
tirely due to Instinct and Heredity. But the 
physical “make-up” of all creatures including 
Man is almost entirely due to Heredity. 

Successful Teaching must be indirect, and so 
simple that the pupil, whether young or old, 
does not realize that he is being taught. It 
must be conducted on the humane principles of 
Interest, Kindness and Freedom. 

Again, we can not hope to develop strong, 
healthy, handsome Bodies as long as we con¬ 
fine the pupils in schoolrooms, for youth is ever 
active when left free to the healthful prompt¬ 
ings of Nature. Free activity is absolutely 
essential for the best development of Body and 
Mind of all ages, but particularly so during 
childhood and youth. 

To put pupils in classes where the brightest 
have to wait for the dullest, like we do in our 
modern professional schools, can not produce 
a race of billiant Thinkers and clever Actors. 
It puts a brake on genius. 

Our professional schools also do very little 
or nothing for the proper development of a 


EDUCATION 


61 




skillful Hand, and still less for the formation 
of a noble Character; and the worst of all is, 
that to be constantly under the direction and 
control of professional Teachers stunts initia¬ 
tive and originality in the Pupil. It tends to 
make the Pupil a mere imitator instead of a 
brilliant originator, and the teacher a haughty 
commander instead of a kind requester. 

Hence, in Modern Paradise are no school- 
houses, churches and universities in which 
pupils, whether young or old, are confined and 
few if any professional teachers. There Froe- 
belism and M ontessorianism—play lessons—for 
young and old are carried to their logical con¬ 
clusion, because there they so charmingly fit 
in, and form a part of, the sane system of in¬ 
dustrialism in the form of domestic and pa¬ 
rental Co-operation so harmoniously evolved in 
Modern Paradise, where everybody is an inci¬ 
dental Teacher and a free, independent student 
for life. There is no Graduation, which usually 
diverts further learning and research. 

For the physical development, there would 
be the swimming pools, indoor and outdoor 
gymnasiums, athletic games, calisthenics, home- 
talent stage, instructive rambles, healthful 
promenades, pleasant dancing and skating in¬ 
termixed with a healthful amount of self- 


62 


EDUCATION 


employed labor as equal partners of the Co¬ 
operating group. 

For the successive stages of Intellectual 
Education, there are the well-equipped nur¬ 
series, kindergarten, playschools for old and 
young, a splendid library, commercial depart¬ 
ment, all kinds of mathematical work, reading 
circles, lyceum, lectures, debates, concerts, 
works of art, literature, science, philosophy 
music, the stage and talking movies that dis¬ 
play objects in their natural colors. In the 
future, movies will be great factors in Educa¬ 
tion, because they amuse and instruct at the 
same time. 

As mere babies, children will also learn how 
to eat and drink in a clean, healthful way; how 
to dress themselves and how to help others 
dress; how to button, hook, tie and pin and 
how to bathe and swim. In the future, chil¬ 
dren will wear very simple, comfortable clothes 
and sometimes none. 

There would also be every inducement and 
opportunity to do original research work with 
the microscope, telescope, spectroscope and 
work in the laboratory, inventor's shop as well 
as many other places, and always with a view 
to help the child to help itself. 


EDUCATION 


63 


For the harmonious development of the In¬ 
dustrial and Domestic Sentiments, there would 
be the garden, orchard, field, electric kitchen, 
dining room, cafe, public nurseries, barber shop 
where men, women and children are served by 
men and women barbers. Future women will 
undoubtedly adopt the easy and sanitary 
method of shingling their hair in some artistic 
style. 

In Modern Paradise, children begin to work 
when they are six or eight years old, at such 
easy work (which is play to them) as picking 
berries, fruit, weeding, etc., at piecework. 
They receive the same pay for the same work 
as adults do. But they are never asked to 
work, but they are taught that a certain 
amount of useful work is honorable and health¬ 
ful. 

Children work when they want spending 
money (labor checks); and they feel proud of 
supporting themselves at the age of eight or 
ten for it requires only a little labor for in¬ 
dividual support in Modern Paradise. In this 
useful and practical way, they learn to work, 
to earn and to handle money, all at the same 
time in a practical way and at a remarkably 
young age. 

The Ethical Sentiments would be evolved by 
continually living and working in close contact 


64 


EDUCATION 


with justice and kind treatment of others 
by talks on Ethical Topics and by seeing equal 
justice meted out to every man, woman and 
child regardless of sex, color, age or nationality. 
There would be no cadets and scouts to instill 
militarism, imperialism and gun-patriotism, 
into the rising generations. In fact, the adults 
merely live the life which they want the children 
to imitate and the children unconsciously follow 
their examples; and they learn all these things 
as easily and as naturally as they learn to 
walk and talk. 

The Parental Phase of Education would be 
carried on by learning the structure and func¬ 
tion of Body and Mind, by giving clean, simple 
and practical instructions in sex-hygiene and 
scientific eugenics, and how parents and others 
can raise and train children to the best ad¬ 
vantage and with the least amount of effort. 

In most cases, parents, especially mothers, 
are not the best nurses and educators of their 
own children. As a rule, parents meddle far 
too much with their babies and older children. 
Their frequent meddling invariably makes ill- 
tempered, nervous whiners and cry-babies of 
their spoiled children. Many parents still 
often use harsh language toward their children, 
and some even believe in the old, cruel doctrine 
“Spare the rod and spoil the child.” It is, there- 


EDUCATION 


65 


fore, much better for both parents and children 
to be apart much of the time. The lavishment 
of too much Paternalism, whether as supposed 
kindness or harshness, is bound to spoil any 
child. Give mothers plenty of opportunity for 
rest, amusement and pleasant work while the 
babies and older children are in the public 
nurseries much of the time. When that is 
well done, babies will then not have to be 
bottle-fed like millions now have to be. 

In Modern Paradise, there would then be a 
complete all-round EDUCATION—a strong, 
healthy, handsome Body; a sound, active Mind; 
a clever, industrious Hand, and a noble Person¬ 
ality—all acquired in a free, pleasant way, and 
at a very young age and without ever con¬ 
fining pupils in dreary schoolrooms and churches 
compelling them to study in a formal manner 
dull and largely antiquated books that teach 
only a very small part of the important, prac¬ 
tical affairs of daily life which every child 
should know, and an immense amount of com¬ 
paratively useless material which the child 
seldom or never uses in later life. 

But until we live and work right, we need 
the professional schools. It is, however, a pity 
that we have no better system of Education. 
In the United States, there are over 20,000,000 
school children enrolled. When they are in 


66 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 


the schools, they are arbitrarily confined and 
largely instructed in the ways of learning how to 
put the value of the dollar above the value of 
the Man. When they are out of school, they 
have no jobs. As idlers, they likely loaf and 
visit questionable resorts which tends to lead 
to vice and crime. Every child as well as every 
adult should always have a free, open oppor¬ 
tunity for a good job of self-employed labor and 
receive the full fruit of his or her effort. Any 
system that does not provide these means is 
fundamentally defective and can not produce 
a harmonious world. 

Such will undoubtedly be the trend of pro¬ 
gress in future Education, so that posterity in 
the not distant future will look upon the 
present schoolhouse and church as juvenile 
prisons and the professional Teachers and 
Ministers as haughty, self-imposed rulers. 

XVI 

S elf-preservation, the desire to live 

the longest, happiest life; NUTRITION, the 
desire for plenty of good food and other material 
things; LIBERTY, the desire for the widest 
range of personal freedom; and REPRODUC¬ 
TION, the strong desire to love and be loved 
seem to be the four deepest SENTIMENTS in 
all animal creatures. Hence, from what has 


MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 67 


already been said, we can plainly see that 
future Marriage and Divorce will be very simple 
and harmonious, based entirely on the im¬ 
portant fundamental principle of complete 
SELF - OWNERSHIP IN IDEAL DEMOC¬ 
RACY. 

The History of the Past plainly shows that 
woman has so far been treated very largely 
either as a pampered doll, largely kept for the 
purpose of ministering to the whimsical and 
passionate wants of the man, or as a domestic 
and maternal drudge, and such is still largely 
her lot, and must always remain her subordin¬ 
ate and dependent condition as long as the 
family-cottage and servant-kept mansion 
methods of living and working are continued; 
that long she must expect to remain the de¬ 
pendent subordinate. Nothing but domestic 
and parental co-operation will really emancipate 
her, and that the intelligent woman will more 
and more demand, and the considerate man 
more and more grant. 

Marriage and Divorce—human mating—in 
some form is undoubtedly as old as the human 
race, likely more than a million years. But 
like all other human institutions, they pro¬ 
gressed from time to time. 

At first the husband captured his mate. 
Later suitors purchased her from her father 


68 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 


for so many head of cattle or other property. 
Her consent was then not solicited, so that 
it was a forced marriage on her part. The 
present give-and-take Marriage was then not 
yet practiced. It was then all take by the hus¬ 
band and all give by the wife. Still later the 
parents largely manipulated the marriage of 
their children to suit the parents' whims, and 
to some extent that is still sometimes the case, 
but the modern children now usually follow 
their own choice. 

Formerly it was also obligatory to have the 
marriage solemnized by the church. Marriage 
was then regarded as a holy sacrament and bind¬ 
ing for life no matter how discordant it later 
became. There was then no legal Divorce as 
now. Later it became optional with the con-^ 
tracting parties to have either the church or 
the state “tie the knot." 

As we all know, it is no longer obligatory to 
have the Church perform the marriage cere¬ 
mony. Millions of couples now annually marry 
without any religious ceremonies, but the State 
still insists to have the marriage ceremony per¬ 
formed either by a clergyman or by some state 
official. 

Under the Common Law, the husband and 
the wife are supposed to be “one" and the 
husband who was the lawmaker and physically 


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69 


the stronger claimed to be the “one.” That is 
a very one-sided and unjust affair. Of recent 
years, that has been modified to quite an extent; 
but the woman when she marries still not only 
drops her own name, but also her economic 
independence and her social freedom. As a 
rule, the wife is still the dependent subordinate 
and is also invariably judged by a different 
moral standard. 

The foregoing progressive steps in Marriage 
and Divorce show that the rapid trend of ad¬ 
vancing Civilization is toward the freedom, 
independence and private judgment of the 
mating parties, and that freedom and personal 
judgment of the contracting parties will, no 
doubt, continue until Marriage and Divorce 
will be regarded as a mere contract or partner¬ 
ship, like any other contract or partnership, 
and the mating parties to have the sole say as 
to when, where and how long that contract 
shall continue, or when it shall be discontinued. 
There will then be no interference of parents, 
church or state in the matters of Marriage and 
Divorce, for no one knows as well as the mated 
parties whether the conjugal partnership shall 
continue or be terminated. Hence, they should 
be the sole judges in these vital matters. 

Again, we all know that motherhood involves 
much more danger, worry, responsibility and 


70 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 


care in the matter of giving birth and nurture 
to offspring than fatherhood does, and for that 
reason should woman have the just right to 
enjoy all the Rights and Privileges that the 
man enjoys and ONE MORE. 

That one more is, that she and not he be ac¬ 
corded the initial step in the important function 
of parenthood; that she be the solicitor in love 
affairs, the principal director of her child in so 
far as she desires that, and that the child bear 
her name instead of the father’s. Rights and 
privileges should be commensurate with dangers 
burdens and responsibilities. 

When every marriageable boy and girl, 
man and woman, inherits a fine home, a life¬ 
long $10-a-day job as equal partner, and is 
thoroughly educated on all practical affairs 
of life, including sex-hygiene and scientific 
eugenics as well as in the best methods of rais¬ 
ing and training children, like young and old 
in the future will be, no harm can then result 
from leaving all questions of Marriage and 
Divorce to the best judgment of the mating 
parties, whether young or old. 

No conjugal evil can then befall anyone, 
and motherhood will then for the first time 
in the history of the human race stand elevated 
to its proper dignity, freedom and independ¬ 
ence. When free and independent woman is 


MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 71 


accorded the initial step in courtship and 
parenthood, there will then be few if any un¬ 
welcomed children born and the present de¬ 
teriorating sexual excesses both in and out of 
wedlock will then, no doubt, be gradually 
normalized. 

This will also do away with the danger, sup¬ 
port and worry of millions of parents over 
their grown-up boys and girls in keeping them 
on the present conventional course of shiftless 
life. Millions of parents now frequently lie 
awake nights thinking where is my boy and 
still more so where is my girl.. Will their 
conduct bring ruin and disgrace on me and 
them.. In the future, all this parental worry, 
strife and support will be practically eliminated 
by leaving all questions of Marriage and 
Divorce solely to the best judgment of the 
home-owning and highly educated and refined 
mating parties, whether young or old. “Moral 
Squads” and meddling Chaperons will then no 
longer be necessary. Under the give-and-take 
marriage regime, millions of husbands and 
wives are practically cloistered nuns and 
monks, when their mates are absent on visits 
or business. That makes life to both lonely, 
dependent and burdensome. Complete self¬ 
ownership at all times is the only remedy for 
this wide-spread evil. 


72 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 


At the beginning of the nineteenth century, 
the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus, an English 
political economist, frightened the world with 
his ideas of overpopulation. He advocated that 
Population increases faster than the means of 
subsistence can be increased; and that by this 
ever-increasing Population wide-spread famine 
and wholesale death will in time be produced. 
For some time, many believed his reasoning, 
and some careless thinkers still believe it. 

But, in reality, everything now seems to 
point the other way. We can readily see that 
in order to prevent the present Population of 
the world from decreasing, every fertile adult 
female has to give birth, in an average, of at 
least three or more children. Two children 
must be born to every couple to supplant the 
two parents, and quite a number more, be¬ 
cause many children die before they become 
adults. 

We must also bear in mind that quite an 
increasing per cent of the intelligent females 
as well as the males already refuse to marry 
under our present distressing conditions of 
living and working. Other females and males 
are naturally barren, and still many others 
* that do not want children resort to birth 
control. 


MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 73 


Then there are at present some 10,000,000 
more females in the world than males. Under 
our present monogamous marriage regime, 
these 10,000,000 excess females can not be¬ 
come mothers unless they become intimate 
with some other woman's husband. From all 
this, we can plainly see that all the fertile 
females that have mates have to average three 
or more children in order to prevent race suicide. 
Will the refined women of the future who are 
free and independent and who know all about 
birth control do that unless motherhood is 
elevated to the very highest standard? 

On the point of national population, I may 
suggest that the population of a number of the 
leading Nations is already decreasing instead 
of increasing. Among these decreasing Nations 
may be mentioned France, England, Germany, 
Russia, Greece and others. Even in the United 
States, the birth rate of 1922 was nearly two 
less per 1,000 than it was in 1921. 

In view of these facts, there seems to be 
much more probability for race suicide than 
for the Malthusian scarecrow of starvation by 
over-population. But after motherhood re¬ 
ceives the proper dignity, care and assistance 
by sane domestic co-operation, will the healthy, 
strong, sturdy women of the future, no doubt, 
see to it that the proper number of babies are 


74 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 


born, no more, no less. The “naughty” mar¬ 
riage and divoree problem will then be com¬ 
pletely settled, and all without sensational 
gossip and spectacular scandal. 

v The Reader may thus see that a good system 
of Money, Education, Marriage and Divorce, 
etc., can not come in without an all-round sane 
method of Thinking, Living and Working. 
They must evolve together, and all this de¬ 
pends on the intelligence and refinement of the 
people. Human Institutions are invariably 
about as good as the contemporaries of any age 
can appreciate them. 

In our present competitive system of think¬ 
ing, living and working, we still invariably 
offer the premium on the bad instead of the 
good. The lawyer is interested in having the 
people quarrel and fight, the doctor in disease 
and accidents; the dentist in decaying teeth; 
the insurance agent in having houses burn; the 
minister, priest and rabbi in keeping the people 
superstitious; the militarist in war; some wives 
to have the husband die to get the big insurance. 

In Modern Paradise all this is just the 
opposite. There the premiums naturally goes 
to the GOOD instead of the BAD. We may 
thus see that refined posterity will discard 
practically all our present institutions, habits 
and customs, no matter how sacred we now 
regard them, but for every OLD one they 
discard, they will substitute a much better 
NEW one. 


AUTHOR’S HOME STUDY 



Fig. 8 

In this Study the Author does his literary, artistic, 
scientific and research work, and entertains his friends 
and callers. It is one of the two rooms of his bachelor’s 
suite, 2219 Larimore Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska, in which 
many of the big world problems are frequently discussed 
and put to writing. 










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XVII 

I T is a well-known fact that Sports and 
Amusements change and shift with the age 
of the individual and also with the development 
and culture of the race. The babe wants dif¬ 
ferent Amusement than the adult, and the 
savage different than the civilized. 

In Modern Paradise will be all kinds of in¬ 
teresting as well as useful sports, games, 
amusements and recreations. Everybody will 
there have abundant leisure, money, liberty and 
a wide circle of congenial associates. 

Outdoor sports and amusements would in¬ 
clude motoring and bicycle riding, airplaning, 
skating, swimming, field games, numerous 
athletic and gymnastic exercises, also many 
walks and long promenades to keep the feet and 
legs in vigorous condition, so that the Modern 
Paradisers will not always ride in cars or fly 
in airplanes. 

There would be no end to the variety and 
scope of indoor sports, games, play-lessons and 
other interesting and useful amusements. In 
the grand hall, theater and ballroom would 
frequently be concerts, dancing, debates, lec¬ 
tures, round-table meetings, cards, reading 
circles, home-talent and other plays, wonderful 
movies, scientific and educational experiments, 


78 SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS 


exhibitions of new inventions and discoveries 
as well as countless new diversions which yield 
pleasure and useful information. 

There would also be frequent prize contests— 
Olympic games. To stimulate ambition and 
make life useful and happy, prizes could be 
awarded for such accomplishments as being 
the best inventor, the most useful discoverer, 
the best designer and illustrator, the neatest 
housekeeper, the neatest and most comfortable 
and artistic male and female dresser; to the 
daintiest cook, the cleverest dining room man¬ 
ager, the speediest restaurant worker, the most 
industrious child and adult, the leading artist, 
musician, athlete, gymnast, reader, writer, 
humorist, promoter, typist, stenographer, vocal¬ 
ist, the most charming conversationalist, as 
well as many other worthy accomplishments; 
in fact, life in Modern Paradise would be little 
else than a continuous thrill of health and 
happiness. 

With sane sports, games, amusements and 
recreation, it is the same as with all other hu¬ 
man affairs. Nature builds and operates on 
the plan of endless variety. Everywhere we 
meet with a wilderness of diversity in one grand 
unity, so that everywhere “variety is the spice 
of life,” and the higher the civilization and 
refinement the stronger is this inborn urge for 


SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS 79 


new and varied experiences. In order to 
realize the variety to the fullest extent, we 
travel for new scenery, visit with new associates, 
read new books, make new styles of dress, 
raise new varieties of crops, build new homes, 
make new constitutions and new ethics. In 
time we outgrow our homes, our clothes, our 
vehicles, our food, our furniture, amusements 
and even our associates, so that every progres¬ 
sive man, woman and child is ever consciously 
or unconsciously on the alert for new varieties 
of life’s activities. 

The old and frequently experienced naturally, 
in time, becomes commonplace, and that seems 
to apply, in general, to companions and love 
as well as to other matters of human well-being. 
That inherent urge for variety is also one of 
the two deep-seated causes for the rapid in¬ 
crease of divorces whether we like it or not. 
The other fundamental cause is the discordant 
outside ownership of the give-and-take mar¬ 
riage regime. The only remedy is self-owner¬ 
ship instead of outside ownership. 


XVIII 


T HE Government of Modern Paradise is 
practically the same as that of a refined 
family, only larger. State and national bound¬ 
aries become obsolete as race and national 


80 


SELF-GOVERNMENT 


prejudices die out by advancing civilization, 
as we already notice between the States of 
the United States where we travel across the 
continent from one State into another without 
paying any attention to State Lines. The 
same will also, no doubt, become true in time 
of the national boundary lines. 

As Man becomes really civilized, and the 
population sanely distributed in co-operating 
groups over the country, all the armies, navies, 
police forces, diplomats, rulers, politicians, 
officials and chaperons of the world will be 
disbanded and shifted more and more into 
fields of useful production instead of brutal 
destruction and discordant meddling as now. 

No guns and weapons of war of any kind 
will then be manufactured and sold, and the 
present compulsory laws will undoubtedly be 
superseded by refined SELF-GOVERNMENT; 
government which emantes from within out¬ 
ward; instead of from without inward; a govern¬ 
ment which regards the rights and wishes of 
the non-invasive INDIVIDUAL superior to 
the dictates of SOCIETY; for we can not have 
a good Society before we have good Individuals 
to compose it, so that every restriction and 
constraint placed on non-invasive—harmless— 
individuals is an impediment to their fullest 


SELF-GOVERNMENT 


81 


development and, therefore, a retarding brake 
on social Progress. 

As the Modern Paradisers are all equal 
partners, no one can there be a commanding 
“boss” as the bosses and employers are under 
chattel slavery, serfdom, the wage-system and 
the give-and-take marriage regime. There 
would undoubtedly be recognized managers in 
the various professions and occupations, but 
they could only request their equal Partners, 
the same as a refined husband or wife would 
request instead of command their respective 
helpmates. 

All such kind treatment, unimpaired liberty 
and mutual helpfulness naturally promote 
friendly mutuality instead of arousing hatred 
and discord as the “boss” practice invariably 
does. During the summer most of the men, 
women and children work in the field, orchard 
and garden; in the winter in the factory and 
large greenhouse. In this way labor can easily 
be shifted from farm to factory and back again, 
so that everybody can always be busy when 
they want to work their short day's work. 

Every Modern Paradise manufactures one 
or more staple articles besides the smaller 
things for exclusive home use. To keep the 
Universal Warehouse and Department store 


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in the Co-operative Mansion well filled is all 
the Modern Paradisers have to do. Men, 
women and children work side by side in prac¬ 
tically all occupations, and as before intimated, 
often as congenial lovers. Some women run 
tractors in the field and garden, and some men 
are cooks in the electric kitchen. Most men, 
women and youths are highly skillful in a dozen 
or more occupations. This variety and change 
of indoor and outdoor work and play keeps 
them all healthy, sturdy, strong and happy. 

The Modern Paradise Transportation of 
freight, mail and passengers on the firmly-paved 
highways and in perfected airplanes is mere 
play. If one Modern Paradise produces more 
of any particular kind of goods than it needs 
for its own consumption, it exchanges or sells 
the surplus to others the same as we now do. 
But the Transportation would be vastly re¬ 
duced, because most of the commodities raised, 
manufactured and mined in the various Modern 
Paradises are used and consumed on the very 
estates or near by, where they are produced, 
instead of shipping them back and forth from 
the distant farms to the big cities for hundreds 
or thousands of miles. 

The Population will then be quite evenly 
distributed over the land, so that there is no 
crowding of people and vehicles like we now 


SELF-GOVERNMENT 


83 


have in the congested cities and overpopulated 
districts. 

There will then be abundant room for park¬ 
ing and airplane landing, and no crowded 
highways, so that motoring and truck freight¬ 
ing will always be pleasures, and very few ac¬ 
cidents. As before suggested, there is high 
efficiency, but no strenuous rush as we now 
have it under the profit-grabbing wage-system, 
a tendency which is rapidly undermining the 
good health and natural development of the 
human race. After the country is blocked off 
into Modern Paradises four miles square and 
the population of the nation is sanely distrib¬ 
uted over the arable land, motoring over 
all the fine boulevards will be real pleasure. 
The intersections will then be four miles 
apart, so that the driver needs to look ahead 
only. 

In the future, Manners, Customs and Dress 
will be in conformity with health, welfare and 
happiness rather than with tradition or ancient 
precedent. Under this free and struggleless 
mode of Thinking, Living and Working, crime, 
insanity, disease and accidents will be reduced 
to the minimum and envy, jealousy and suicide 
will be practically unknown; for the causes 
that produce them are almost entirely removed. 


84 


SELF-GOVERNMENT 


Posterity will also, no doubt, learn the bio¬ 
logical cause of SEX, so that prospective 
parents can have either male or female as they 
desire. On this important question, our 
present science is still entirely in the dark. 

With the abundant leisure of the future, 
Literature and Art will develop much more 
along the lines of the Useful and Artistic with 
substantially all frivolous fiction and meaning¬ 
less poetry eliminated and little or no adver¬ 
tising. 

There will be much less sensational writing 
and empty gossip and much more good doing. 
As before suggested, there will be no soldiers, 
policemen, cadets, scouts, war veterans, chap¬ 
erons and secret societies; no superstitious 
mysticism nor compulsory government, but 
the physical and mental attainments will be 
vastly superior to those of the present, and 
astounding scientific revelations will be made 
by advancing civilization. The world will be 
full of inventive wizards like Edison, Ford, 
Burbank, Steinmetz, Marconi, Wright Bros, 
and scores of other inventors and discoverers. 

In the future, when every man, woman and 
youth has a $10-a-day job, bequests, and in¬ 
surance and alimony will be things of the 
Past, and cremation will be the disposition of 
the dead. 


SELF-GOVERNMENT 


85 


In the future, when the human Body will 
be a model of health, grace and beauty in form 
and function, when the Mind is clean in thought 
and purely natural and when Grundyism has 
died out, men, women and children will live 
closer to Nature and wear much less clothes 
and sometimes none. At times, men, women 
and children will commingle at swimming con¬ 
tests, art galleries and other places, wearing 
little or no raiment of any kind. 

As the power of the dollar, the craving for 
aristocracy, shallow royalty, superstitious 
mysticism, extravagant attire, etc., continue to 
grow in disrepute will the future Topics of 
Conversation be more and more along the lines 
of universal welfare and happiness founded on 
the basis of natural ETHICS. 

Physical beauty, sexual attraction, intellec¬ 
tual attainments, industrial skill, congenial 
habits, obliging conduct, inventive genius, 
personal liberty, striking originality, pleasing 
humor and noble personality will, no doubt, 
always remain valuable assets for personal 
popularity and admiration, no matter how far 
posterity may advance. 

XIX 

A S Domestic Co-operation continues to be¬ 
come more and more extensive and uni¬ 
versal as it certainly will, Buildings will be- 


86 


ALUMINUM BUILDINGS 


come fewer, larger, more sanitary, convenient, 
artistic, and will be constructed of Metal and 
greatly improved Glass, instead of wood and 
other rapidly decaying materials. It is esti¬ 
mated that at least 7 per cent of the Earth’s 
crust is ALUMINUM. Every claybank in 
the world is an Aluminum mine and on account 
of its abundance and extremely suitable quali¬ 
ties for architectural, mechanical, electrical, 
artistic and culinary purposes, will Aluminum 
rapidly become the building, machinery, fur¬ 
niture, electrical and culinary material of the 
world, and will also perhaps become an im¬ 
portant element in paving. 

A large Co-operative Mansion (see Mansion 
page 25), well constructed of Aluminum and 
improved Glass, and securely bolted to a well- 
grounded concrete foundation, will withstand 
almost any flood, storm, earthquake and even 
lightning itself. Such a Building will endure 
“the ravages of time” for scores of centuries. 

In 1855 a pound of Aluminum cost $90. To¬ 
day it can be produced for a few cents a pound, 
and this reduction in the actual cost of pro¬ 
duction will certainly continue until a pound 
will cost less than one cent. Then all the 
buildings, tools, machinery, furniture, culinary 
utensils, etc., will be made of aluminum or 
some alloy of it. Iron, wood, brick, plaster, 


ALUMINUM BUILDINGS 


87 


nails, wallpaper, tin and also perhaps lead, 
silver and copper will then have little or no 
commercial and industrial values, and the same 
will apply to the forest, coal mines, oil wells 
and wind and water powers after we learn how 
to utilize the direct solar Energy as it con¬ 
tinually streams from the Sun to the Earth. 
When our Aluminum buildings will last for 
thousands of years, and when few if any other 
metals are used, building, mining and commer¬ 
cialism will become very much less, and agri¬ 
culture and industrialism correspondingly more. 

Experience shows that political, creed, race 
and national Hatreds, Prejudices, Envies and 
Jealousies die out as intelligence and refined 
culture advance. We may thus see that the 
only permanent and harmonious solution of 
the “naughty race and nationality questions” 
can be the free and indiscriminate intermarriage 
of the various races and nationalities. 

This future kind and friendly mutuality be¬ 
tween the various races, nations and languages 
will thus surely usher in the true cosmopolitan 
brotherhood and sisterhood of the human 
family. This will naturally produce a rapidly 
growing tendency toward one race, one coun¬ 
try, one language—a cosmopolitan language 
that is very much simplified in grammatical 
construction and has neither substitutes, silent 


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ALUMINUM BUILDINGS 


letters no 1 " diacritical marks; one industrialism, 
one ethical and moral standard, one philosophy, 
one sound naturalism, and one highly evolved 
HUMANITY; a human race that will be 
neither white, black, yellow nor red, but will 
have all the past, present and future shades of 
the individuals and species harmoniously 
blended into one color evolved by the Law of 
the Survival of the Fittest. 

With toil, worry, cruelty, superstition, envy, 
jealousy (pretended outside ownership is the 
cause of jealousy), immorality and poverty 
substantially eliminated, beauty of face and 
grace of form and function will, no doubt, de¬ 
velop to a remarkable degree; and the better 
adjustment of the sex-relations which will un¬ 
doubtedly result from the complete self-owner¬ 
ship of both men and women will produce bene¬ 
ficial EUGENIC results which will be the 
pride of future generations. Everybody will 
then be handsome, intelligent, skillful and con¬ 
genial and after the total work of the world 
including the reproduction of the race will be 
equitably divided between the men and the 
women, the women will then gradually become 
as tall and strong as the men; and with these 
beneficial improvements well established, will 
the span of human life likely double or treble 
its present duration. 


PASSING CRAZES 


89 


XX 

E VERY Age has its special Crazes as the 
History of the Past plainly shows, as the 
Age of “bloody burnt offerings, ” ghosts, 
witches, gladiatorial combats, bull fights, chiv¬ 
alry, crusades, flagellation, religion, penance, 
politics, profit grabbing, divine right of kings, 
chattel slavery, serfdom, wage-system, majority 
rule, woman suffrage, prohibition, and numer¬ 
ous others. They all come and go with ad¬ 
vancing Civilization. 

The four big CRAZES of the present age 
which still keep the world in such a chaotic 
condition are: (1) the Mystical (religious) 
craze; (2) the Dollar craze; (3) the Compulsory 
Force craze; and (4) the Sex craze. But these 
four Crazes, like all the rest of them, can all 
be harmoniously adjusted, if we go at it in the 
right manner. 

Superstitious Mysticism of every sort with 
all its horrid fears of a future life of some kind 
can very easily be entirely rooted out by a sane 
study of Nature which produces unified NAT¬ 
URALISM; a belief in the Uniformity of 
Nature and the Universality of natural Law 
which millions of the thoughtful men and 
women have already attained. 


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PASSING CRAZES 


Abundant opportunity for remunerative Self- 
employment for all as equal partners, and the 
full right of every man, woman and child to 
draw his or her own pay checks, and pay his or 
her own personal bills, like the Modern Para- 
disers do, will entirely eliminate the Dollar 
craze. 

The full recognition of complete Self-owner¬ 
ship on the truly democratic basis that the 
Rights and Wishes of the non-invasive Indi¬ 
vidual are paramount to the general dictates of 
Society will do away with the many grave evils 
of outside ownership or compulsory Force. 

Making women Free and Independent eco¬ 
nomically and every other way will undoubtedly 
gradually bring about healthful Sex sentiments 
and habits, both in and out of wedlock. Much 
is being said, written and preached about 
sexual indulgence without that meaningless 
official marriage ceremony, but practically 
nothing is ever said about all the grave sexual 
excesses that are undermining health, fading 
beauty and are bringing into the world millions 
of weak and unwelcomed babies, after the 
official or religious ceremony has been per¬ 
formed. Should not a word of warning on 
this important point be given to the rising 
generation, especially to the unsophisticated 
newlyweds? Do not many couples love far 
too much? 


PASSING CRAZES 


91 


Throughout this book as well as in all my 
other writings, I have pointed out that women 
and children have so far not been justly treated 
by the man. In fact, I contend that this book 
is the first and only literary production that 
accords to women and children a fair deal in 
life. 

All other literature always has been and still 
is written on the false assumption that the man 
is the important independent superior, the in¬ 
dispensable supporter, protector and director; 
and woman the dependent subordinate . That is 
an unwarranted reflection on the ability and 
character of the women which every intelligent 
.woman and man should resent. 

But that does not mean that the woman has 
always been right and the man always wrong. 
There are thousands of so-called society women 
including royalty and aristocracy that think 
of little else than fine clothes, speedy automo¬ 
biles, expensive meal tickets, extravagant 
jewelry, frivolous fiction, an idle life and 
maids to serve them. As a rule, they know 
but little about the important affairs of prac¬ 
tical life, and are thus a menace rather than a 
blessing to Humanity. 

They should learn to take care of them¬ 
selves; to work and become useful members of 


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Society, for as long as they are idlers, they are 
undesirable social parasites living on the labor 
of others. Future society will not tolerate that. 

But these society idlers, men, women and 
children, are not individually to “blame” for 
their dull, useless life. They just happen to 
grow up in a perverted environment. The 
man that grows up among cannon will be a 
militarist, the companion of gamblers will 
likely develop into a gambler. Change the en¬ 
vironment and they all become useful and 
honorable members of refined society. They 
need a little more brain and a little more re¬ 
gard for the just rights of others. They lack 
real DEMOCRACY. 


XXI 

L ET us keep in mind that in Sociology the 
same as in Biology, Evolution always 
starts in with the simple UNIT. In Biology, 
Evolution began its progressive development 
with the protoplasm of the single cell, and by 
countless additional cells mutually co-operat¬ 
ing with the first cell slowly evolved the IN¬ 
DIVIDUALS, high and low, of the Plant and 
Animal Kingdoms. 

The same is also true in Sociology. First 
some lone Individual happens to conceive of 
an improved plan, program or method of 


SOCIAL UNIT 


93 


Thinking, Living and Working. This pioneer 
individual Thinker then makes his advanced 
ideas known to a few others. Then a com¬ 
paratively small group of these matured social 
Individuals forms the first nucleus of a family, 
a tribe, a nation; all at first run largely on the 
basis of superstition and physical force , but 
later turn more and more to SANE NATURAL¬ 
ISM AND IDEAL DEMOCRACY, perhaps 
a Modern Paradise. 

The Reader can plainly see that the Modern 
Paradise Plan of social and industrial organiza¬ 
tion is VOLUNTARY CO-OPERATION. 
Hence, there is no compulsory Law to evade, 
no opposing Minority to fight and subdue, and 
no armed force to contend against. With free, 
voluntary Co-operation (Co-operative Indi¬ 
vidualism), everybody naturally glides into that 
position where he or she fits in best, and where 
each prefers to be. 

So far Sociologists have almost universally 
regarded the man-made Family instead of the 
biological Individual as the ultimate UNIT of 
human Society. But this primitive theory that 
husband and wife are one can never produce 
real social and industrial harmony as the 
rapidly increasing number of divorces and 
numerous other sociologic discords indicates, 
because every self-respecting INDIVIDUAL— 


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man, woman and child—naturally strives to be 
free and independent, and that can be accom¬ 
plished only when the Individual instead of 
the Family is regarded and recognized as the 
SOCIAL UNIT. 

With the aid of these Modern Paradise Plans 
and Specifications as given in this book, any 
two or more Individuals that have a little 
brain and material wealth can build and fur¬ 
nish the first Modern Paradise as their ideal 
Home right now. After they have it all fin¬ 
ished and furnished, they can invite the 500 
or more refined Co-operators to come in and 
live and work with them as equal Partners. 

All the invited men, women and children 
need to furnish is their clothes and their ability 
to live a harmonious co-operative life; merely 
be able to do some useful work and mind their 
own business and let others do the same. 

There is no charity connected with the trans¬ 
actions. The Builders absolutely need the 500 
or more invited Co-operators as equal partners 
to complete their ideal home, a home where 
they are immediately surrounded by a group 
of free, independent, congenial men, women 
and children, as equal partners, and the suc¬ 
cess of the first Modern Paradise depends al¬ 
most entirely on the proper selection of the 
Charter Members. With ample funds on 


SOCIAL UNIT 


95 


hand the first Modern Paradise could be built 
and furnished in less than two years. 

In selecting these Charter Members, we 
want to bear in mind that only a very small 
per cent of the people are as yet matured for a 
model Co-operative Life. The vast majority 
still use the weapon of Force of some kind in¬ 
stead of Reason to fight their battles of life 
and that force method whether used by in¬ 
dividuals, groups or nations always produces 
strife and discordant results, misery instead of 
happiness. 

If the first Modern Paradise Association 
makes good, others will, no doubt, rapidly fol¬ 
low along similar lines as soon as more and 
more of the people develop for that higher and 
cleaner life, so that in time the whole Nation 
will be blocked off in large Landed Estates or 
Modern Paradises; and all by pleasant volun¬ 
tary CO-OPERATION as equal Partners. 

Visitors from all over the world would un¬ 
doubtedly come and personally see and examine 
the Form and Operation of the first Modern 
Paradise, and the pioneers that make the real¬ 
ization of such an important progressive meas¬ 
ure possible, will, no doubt, be hailed by all 
future generations as the greatest benefactors 
of Humanity. 


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To accomplish all the important things that 
have been suggested in the foregoing pages, 
of making a heaven on earth, only three things 
are necessary. First, Material Wealth, of 
which we already have $200,000,000,000 worth 
in the United States. Second, Plans and Speci¬ 
fications for building and operating the Modern 
Paradise. This illustrated book will adequately 
serve this purpose; and Third, intelligent men, 
women and children as refined members to 
occupy and harmoniously operate the Modern 
Paradise as equal Partners. 

We may thus see that the first two essential 
factors—Wealth and Plans—we already have 
to the required extent; and of the third—re¬ 
fined Co-operators—we also have some, but 
not very many, perhaps 10,000 or a 100,000 or 
possibly a 1,000,000 in the United States, but 
this number is now rapidly increasing, and this 
increase will, no doubt, continue until all will 
be model subjects desiring to live a free, clean, 
healthful, prosperous, happy life; the only life 
really worth living for a refined person. 

XXII 

N OW let us see how many of the good things 
that we still need so much would auto¬ 
matically come in with the Modern Paradise 
program of Thinking, Living and Working; 


GOOD AND BAD THINGS 


97 


and how many of the present bad things it 
would eliminate. 

Among the many good things may be men¬ 
tioned that every member would have an equal 
equity in the Land, a fine home as soon as 
born and a full supply of fine tools and machin¬ 
ery, all of which would be inherited from gener¬ 
ation to generation, the same as we now in¬ 
herit the schoolhouses, postoffice, etc. 

A life-long job of self-employment, yielding 
the full fruit of his or her labor as equal owning 
Partners, and every man, woman and child 
worker, whether married or single, personally 
draws his or her own pay checks for the co¬ 
operative labor each performs, whether that 
labor be industrial, domestic or maternal, and 
everybody also pays his or her own bills for 
meals, clothes, personal ornaments, amuse¬ 
ments, etc. The average workday would likely 
be less than three hours daily, the daily work 
would be right in, or near the home, and the 
average remuneration of every man, woman and 
youth worker for a day’s labor would likely 
average more than $10 worth of wealth. 

Everybody would also have the exclusive 
use of a large private apartment in the Mansion 
with fine furniture, musical instruments and 
private bath, if desired; full access to all the 


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GOOD AND BAD THINGS 


public departments of all the Buildings; ex¬ 
cellent home-raised and prepared meals for a 
few cents; fine comfortable clothes; a large 
circle of congenial men, women and children as 
companions and co-laborers; the most interest¬ 
ing and effective System of Education ever sug¬ 
gested; live in the finest Mansion located in a 
beautiful park; have all the means of amuse¬ 
ments right at home or in some other Modern 
Paradise as visitors; the use of all kinds of 
cars, busses and airplanes; and every non- 
invasive Individual enjoys unimpaired LIB¬ 
ERTY in conduct, eating, dress, mating, etc., 
based on complete Self-ownership in Ideal 
Democracy. 

They together own and operate a clean, well- 
filled Department Store where members can 
buy everything at cost with the first and only 
honest, stable and efficient System of Money 
that has yet been proposed; extensive fields 
and productive gardens; large, modern machin¬ 
ery run at first with cheap Electricity abun¬ 
dantly generated with water power, and later, 
no doubt, operated with the direct Solar Energy 
which is continually streaming from the Sun to 
the Earth in endless quantities; large garden, 
orchard and nut-bearing forest; thousands of 
miles of firmly-paved highways; the buildings 
constructed of Aluminum and Glass; electric 


GOOD AND BAD THINGS 


99 


heating, lighting, cooking and mechanical ven¬ 
tilation, and in the summer mechanical cooling 
as well as many other good things too numerous 
to mention. 

But the Modern Paradise plan of Co-opera¬ 
tive Living and Working does not only usher 
in the desired good things, but also eliminates 
practically all existing evils that are now so 
heavily burdening the people of every land. 

There would be no noisy, congested, immoral 
Cities and no isolated country homes. No cot¬ 
tages and servant-kept mansions in which 
women and children eke out a crude, lonely life 
as kitchen, nursery and laundry drudges. No 
slums and questionable resorts. No landlords 
and tenants to quarrel and fight; no strikes and 
lockouts to starve and freeze the Public; no 
compulsory majority rule to stifle the best 
thoughts and plans of minorities. 

No need for armies, navies, police forces and 
chaperons and no use for meddlesome Grundy¬ 
ism; no impediments of free speech, free press, 
free assembly and free non-invasive conduct. 
No breweries and slaughter houses. No stimu¬ 
lants and narcotics—opium, liquor, tobacco, 
tea and coffee—to steal the good sense and im¬ 
pair the good health. No masters and ser¬ 
vants. No “red light districts.” No com- 


100 GOOD AND BAD THINGS 


pulsory education and no involuntary child 
labor. No monopoly and special privilege. 
No graft and profiteering and no high cost of 
living. 

There is no extravagant and idle aristocracy 
to live on the labor of others. No royal palaces 
and gaudy cathedrals to build and support, 
and little, if any, use for insane asylums. And 
after people know enough to stop quarreling 
and “sinning” there will be no need for lawyers, 
ministers and judicial judges. No dependent 
aged parents to be discordantly supported by 
their children. No worry of parents over their 
children whether babe or grown-up. No de¬ 
pendent women and begging children. No 
army of extravagantly salaried rulers and 
officials on the one hand, and millions of job¬ 
less on the other. No heartless multi-mil¬ 
lionaires and pauperized beggars. No scheming 
diplomats and deceiving politicians, and no 
exploiting commercialism of any kind. 

These as well as many other progressive 
changes in human affairs will undoubtedly be 
more and more realized by refined posterity 
long before the close of this Thousand Year 
Forecast, and many of them will even be ap¬ 
proximately attained before the end of the 
present Century. We may thus at least partly 
visualize the many grand things posterity will 


GOOD AND BAD THINGS 101 


enjoy in the future. Posterity will look upon 
our present doings as we look upon the crude 
doings of the people of the Stone Age. 

Not all the Modern Paradises will at first 
be operated on such high ideals as I have 
depicted in the foregoing pages. Some will, 
no doubt, still stick to the pipe, bottle and cup 
for a while. Others will see the great benefits 
of industrial, domestic and parental co-opera¬ 
tion, but will not feel at ease without churches, 
professional schools and some form of boss- 
ship. Still others will want animals and 
slaughterhouses to kill them, etc. 

But all this unnecessary, unclean, unsanitary, 
unhealthy and wasteful work will greatly 
lengthen their average workday and reduce the 
comforts and conveniences of life in such im¬ 
mature Modern Paradises. But the members 
will nevertheless reap much of the great bene¬ 
fits from their industrial, domestic and parental 
co-operation, no matter how crude and super¬ 
stitious it might be at the beginning. The 
Survival of the Fittest will, no doubt, soon 
prevail among the Modern Paradises the same 
as among individuals. It must all be settled 
by intelligence. 

We may thus see that under the Modern 
Paradise regime of thinking, living and work- 


102 


GOOD AND BAD THINGS 


ing, there are at first all grades of civilization 
from the ideal Modern Paradise down to the 
Indian wigwam, so that everybody can find a 
suitable place in the wide-open field of sociologic 
progress where each can feel at ease whether 
crude or refined. 

At the top of the social structure is the ideal 
Modern Paradise before depicted. The next 
step down are the Modern Paradises that have 
many good things, but also have still many 
bad ones; such as the opium den, smoke house, 
booze bottle, give-and-take marriage, super¬ 
stitious mysticism, coffee cup, gambling table, 
social parasites, scheming politicians, etc. 

Below those partially developed Modern 
Paradises can be the group that are fairly able 
to co-operate industrially, but are still unable 
to co-operate domestically. They can live in 
family cottages like those located on large 
residence lots as shown in Figure 5, page 33, 
but not in a Co-operative Mansion. They are 
still scrappers and fighters. Their average 
workday is at least twice as long as the work¬ 
day in an ideal Modern Paradise. Their 
women and children are also dependent sub¬ 
ordinates, and their liberty, comforts and con¬ 
veniences of life are also very much below the 
ideal standard, but it fits their sentiments and 
backward habits, and, therefore, they should 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 103 


have it, even if they have to pay dear for it. 

Those that are still unable to co-operate on 
any agreeable basis, but want to see improve¬ 
ments made on our present chaotic conditions 
of the world as it is now run under the wage- 
system can work along the progressive lines 
suggested in Chapter XXIII, page 103; and so 
on down, until we reach the Indian wigwam. 
Hence, everybody can find a suitable niche in 
which each fits best in accordance with the 
degree of his or her development, and all by 
voluntary adjustment. Every Reader should 
ask himself or herself, “Where do I belong in 
this graduated scale of development? How 
far am I still from the top of the social ideals? ” 

XXIII 

W E are, however, not yet all matured to 
live that co-operative life which I 
have depicted in the foregoing pages. Most 
people have still too much of the tiger element 
in them to live harmoniously in any Modern 
Paradise whether crude or ideal. They are still 
haters, meddlers, quarrelers and fighters. They 
invariably try to fleece and dominate over 
others instead of developing and refining them¬ 
selves and minding their own business. As 
long as we do that we lack culture and due 
regard for the just rights of others, and in 


104 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


that way curtail our own welfare and hap¬ 
piness. 

We are all aware that just now the world is 
in a very chaotic condition. We find hatred, 
strife, war and bankruptcy practically every¬ 
where. But all this strife and discord can 
easily be removed, if the people go at it in the 
right way. How, I believe, this can easily and 
speedily be done by immediate practical 
means I shall now very briefly suggest in this 
Topic. 

There are still two great classes of discords 
—National and International strifes and dis¬ 
cords. The International strife, discord and 
war result where one or more Nations ex¬ 
ploit, rob or dominate over other Nations; and 
that strife and war will continue as long as 
there are mandates and dependent Nations; for 
it is natural for all self-respecting peoples to 
strive for national freedom and independence 
the same as we did in 1776. The National dis¬ 
cords result where one Individual or Class ex¬ 
ploits other Individuals or Classes by monop¬ 
oly and special privilege of some sort, and 
that strife and discord will continue to inten¬ 
sify as intelligent conduct advances. 

For the purpose of establishing and main¬ 
taining International Peace, Friendly Mutuality 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 105 


and General Prosperity, let the two opposing 
sides—the Victors and the Vanquished—of 
the late World War: 

(1) Impartially appoint a neutral commis¬ 
sion to ascertain the cause of the war, “who 
started it” and why it was so brutally fought to 
the bitter end without ever trying to make 
peace on the basis of reason instead of armed 
force. The sane people of the world want to 
know that from an impartial tribunal, because 
both sides contend that the opposing side 
started the war, and that causes the hatred 
on both sides. 

(2) Scrap the unjust, autocratic and dis¬ 
reputable Versailles Peace Treaty handed to 
the world by the self-appointed militaristic “Big 
Four;” who cut up more than a dozen Nations 
and bartered away some of their people without 
the slightest regard for the consent of the 
governed. 

(3) Let this neutral Commission also ascer¬ 
tain what Nations are justly entitled to war 
indemnity, how much, and what Nations should 
pay it. 

(4) Convene a truly democratic Peace and 
Disarmament Conference at which every Na¬ 
tion, large and small, independent and de- 


106 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


pendent has an equal voice, the same as our 
States have in the Senate. 

(5) Have this Peace Conference adopt UNI¬ 
VERSAL DISARMAMENT for all interna¬ 
tional war purposes. 

(6) Let the Nations in this Conference agree 
to cancel all the war debts, personal and na¬ 
tional, so as to make it possible, once more to 
begin with a clean slate and a noble purpose. 
To pay war tax and still worse to shift this 
war tax on future generations yet unborn is 
a discredit to the people of any nation. The 
contributors of the war funds on both sides 
of the brutal conflict kept the war going, should 
now pay the penalty of having all the war loans 
canceled to make the world once more peaceful 
prosperous and really democratic. 

(7) Accord to the people of every Nation 
full Self-determination and the sole right of 
adjusting and conducting their own internal 
affairs. 

(8) Restore to every Nation the territory and 
inhabitants of which it was robbed by the late 
war. Turkey already took them back by force 
and all the other dozen or more divided nations 
will likely do the same at their first opportunity, 
and this will keep up the hatred, strife and 
war for centuries to come, if this restoration 
is not made. 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 107 


(9) Adopt a real democratic instead of the 
present autocratic League of Nations on the 
basis of reason and civic justice, and for the 
only one purpose of maintaining the interna¬ 
tional Peace of the world, and from which any 
Nation can withdraw at any time and for any 
cause it sees fit to do so. Come in and go out 
at any time. That leaves every Nation com¬ 
pletely free from any “entangling alliance.” 
There is no more real need for the use of armies 
and navies among Nations than there is be¬ 
tween the several States of a Nation. 

(10) Liberate all prisoners of war and ac¬ 
cord to all individuals and nations full equal 
freedom of the sea and air for all non-aggressive 
purposes. 

(11) Every Nation should be proud of ac¬ 
cording full freedom of speech, the press and 
assembly in order to get at the truth and 
promote progress during peace or war. 

(12) Every citizen that migrates to a foreign 
country should go there at his own risk and 
adjustment. For a Government to protect a 
citizen in a foreign country usually causes strife 
and often war. Many a citizen from a powerful 
Nation is too liable to carry a chip on his 
shoulder and “dares” the foreign Nation by 
questionable means to knock it off. That 


108 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


method is also very unjust to the little Na¬ 
tions that can not protect their citizens in 
foreign lands by armed force from unjust treat¬ 
ment by big Nations. Let every immigrant 
to a foreign country protect himself by just 
treatment of the natives and the laws of the 
land to which he migrates. If that does not 
seem safe to him, he should not venture there. 

The full and impartial application of these 
twelve democratic points will undoubtedly re¬ 
move practically all the present international 
discords which are now bringing so much hard¬ 
ship and misery on the human race, and this 
misery and depression will continue for cen¬ 
turies unless international justice is meted out 
to all nations, large and small, independent and 
dependent. But there are also many national 
evils which must also be adjusted before we 
can expect all-round Peace, Harmony and 
General Prosperity. 

The first and most important national move 
should be to abolish Land Monopoly. To open 
up the Natural Resources—soil, mines, forest, 
oil wells, waterfalls, etc., which provide the 
only unlimited sources of remunerative em¬ 
ployment. This can readily be done by prop¬ 
erly limiting the personal ownership of land, 
mines, etc. To get cheaper tools and machin¬ 
ery, the monopolistic features of the Patent 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 109 


Laws should be removed. To remove the 
gamble element out of the Money System, the 
Banking business should be combined with the 
Post Office Department as a Government func¬ 
tion the same as the mail and parcel post. 
Practically every Post Office should also be¬ 
come a Government Bank, and the money is¬ 
sued by the Government. This can almost 
completely stabilize the average purchasing 
power of the dollar and fully secure every de¬ 
positor against loss, as I fully explain in my 
recent Essay, “How to Awaken the Sleeping 
Mummy." 

For cheaper and more efficient Transporta¬ 
tion and Communication, there should be 
unified GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AND 
OPERATION of railroads, telegraph and other 
monopolized and watered public utilities for 
the general benefit of the Public instead of for 
private gain on the basis of charging “all the 
traffic will bear.” 

Government ownership and operation of 
Public Utilities is desirable, because it will do 
away: (1) with billions of watered stock; (2) 
billions of annual dividends; (3) will unify 
operations which will greatly reduce operating 
expense; (4) with unified operation, the oper¬ 
ating force could be very much reduced; and 
(5) the unified service would be much more 


110 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


convenient to the Public. Such efficient, uni¬ 
fied Government Ownership and Operation 
would undoubtedly reduce Transportation rates 
one-third if not one-half. Government owner¬ 
ship and operation of coal mines and oil wells 
would also, no doubt, cut the present profiteer¬ 
ing price of coal, oil and gasoline in half. As 
to whether the people should own and operate 
the public utilities as public property as they 
do the post office, public schools, parcel post, 
weather bureau, etc., or whether they shall be 
owned and operated by private enterprise as 
now, depends on the viewpoint of the critic. 
Those who want them operated primarily for 
the special benefit of a comparatively small 
group of dividend-taking stockholders, natu¬ 
rally favor private ownership. On the other 
hand, those who want them run for the best 
interest of all the people want public owner¬ 
ship, if they have thoroughly and impartially 
investigated the question. 

To combat Commercial Profiteering, cities 
should also own and operate in competition 
with private owners such basic industries as 
coal yards, ice plants, water and gas plants, 
lumber yards, streetcars, and the finest Munic¬ 
ipal Department Store that sell at cost of pro¬ 
duction everything from a pin to a modern 
threshing outfit and farm tractor. 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 111 


That will abolish commercial profiteering, 
and if these competing unified Public In¬ 
dustries are efficiently operated, that will re¬ 
duce the cost of living to the minimum, make 
the average workday the shortest and easiest, 
remunerative jobs most plentiful, the pur¬ 
chasing power of the dollar most stable and 
factious competition, excessive exportation and 
extravagant waste least. 

We may thus see that real Democracy 
founded on justice, kindness and liberty is the 
only solution of Humanity’s ills. That as long 
as the Victors rule over the Vanquished by 
armed force, and the powerful Independent 
Nations as Mandataries dominate over the 
weaker Nations, there can be no International 
Peace and friendly Mutuality; and as long as 
Plutocracy lives on the toil of the producing 
Masses, there can be no National Peace and 
general Prosperity. 

Flagrant Wrongs like France’s invasion of 
the Ruhr in Germany for not fulfilling a forced 
contract in the making of which Germany had 
no voice will bring nothing but hatred, de¬ 
ception, poverty, war and ruin all-round, be¬ 
cause it is the cave man’s method of treatment. 

Such harmonious national and international 
adjustments on the basis of reason and civic 


112 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


justice as I have suggested in this brief Topic 
will surely go a long, long way toward Peace, 
friendly Mutuality and general Prosperity, 
but the conditions at the very best would still 
be very far from being an ideal Modern Para¬ 
dise. 

We would still have the noisy, immoral, con¬ 
gested cities and the isolated country homes, 
the dependent women and begging children 
eking out a lonely, toilsome life in family cot¬ 
tages and servant-kept mansions; the masters 
and the servants, the millions of school children 
confined in stuffy school rooms; the give-and- 
take marriage regime, as well as many other 
unnecessary impediments against rational life, 
liberty and the pursuit of health and happiness. 

We may thus see that the Ideal toward which 
advancing civilization is undoubtedly tending 
is in the direction of extensive VOLUNTARY 
CO-OPERATION on large Landed Estates 
with shops and factories by groups of intelligent 
men, women and children as equal Industrial 
and Domestic Co-operators and Owners of 
Modern Paradises. 

Hence, our primary aim should be to bring 
the people in social and economic groups back 
to the healthful Land from which all wealth 
must be directly or indirectly produced by the 
hand and brain of labor. 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 113 


Every national Government is still run fun¬ 
damentally on the strife-provoking basis of 
MILITARISM and EXPLOITING COM¬ 
MERCIALISM; on the basis of Force instead 
of Reason and the Dollar above the Man. These 
destructive and unjust sentiments can not pro¬ 
duce a good world to anyone, rich or poor. 

Hence, the two most important transitional 
steps toward the Ideal for the people to take 
immediately are (1) to elect Pacifists instead 
of Militarists as their Rulers and Officials; 
men and women who know enough to settle 
international differences without plunging the 
world into brutal wars; (2) to run Nations on 
the just and humane basis of the “Man Above 
the Dollar.” 

We are still doing just the opposite. Every¬ 
thing that produces DOLLARS still goes. War, 
prostitution, graft, profiteering, selling booze 
and death-dealing armaments and commercial 
gambling of all kinds go, when they have 
Dollars whether honest or dishonest in them. 
We have far too much Commercialism. At 
least 75 per cent of the world’s present Com- 
mercialists and professionalists should be shifted 
into the useful fields of Industrialism. That 
would make the average workday very much 
shorter and easier and the total commodities 
much more in keeping with the modern stand- 


114 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 


ard of living. We, therefore, need many more 
useful producers and many less commercial 
gamblers; shorter workdays and more play- 
days; for as long as superstitious mysticism and 
armed Force are held above Reason, and the 
dollar above Man, we can not hope to have a 
harmonious world. 

Every Reader, after thoughtfully reading this 
small book, can plainly see that the Modern 
Paradise plan of Thinking, Living and Working 
produces the highest Efficiency of Production, 
Equitable Distribution, Wise Accumulation, 
Economical Consumption and Harmonious 
Association; all resting on the sound sociologic 
principle of COMPLETE SELF - OWNER¬ 
SHIP IN IDEAL DEMOCRACY. 

I am also confident that the Remedies which 
I have suggested in this Topic for speedily ad¬ 
justing the present National and International 
discordances will, of course, not turn the world 
into Modern Paradises at once, but will bring 
much immediate relief to the starving and war- 
burdened people of every land, if they only 
rise to the emergency of adopting such measures 
in a free and peaceful way. But all such im¬ 
provements can be attained only by sound 
EDUCATION and further REFINEMENT. 
We can not hope to usher in a good world with¬ 
out having good people to run it harmoniously. 


IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 115 


It just requires only ordinary people that 
know how to do some useful work, that are free 
from superstition, that have clean, healthful 
habits and that know how to tend to their own 
affairs and let others do the same. 

For building, operating and peopling these 
Modern Paradises, whether one or a million, 
I have called in nothing new, strange or mys¬ 
tical (except the suggestion of the Chemico- 
Electric Generator mentioned on page (43) 
which is not yet in operation, but will likely 
come in the near future. Everything for living 
that ideal life is already here in separate parts, 
but the various parts—land, buildings, ma¬ 
chinery, refined co-operators, etc.—have so far 
never been combined in a free and harmonious 
way for producing all-round ideal results. 

Is not this illustrated book, 'The Story of 
the World a Thousand Years Hence” the first 
adequate program descriptive of an ideal 
method of Thinking, Living and Working? 
Does the Reader know of any other? 

But the ideal life is really so simple and so 
uniformly in accord with the peaceable and 
healthful laws of Nature that almost any live 
architect and builder can design, build and 
furnish a Modern Paradise from the drawings 
and suggestions contained in this small book, 


116 


CONCLUSION 


and also visualize the successive transitional 
steps that gradually lead up to that evolu¬ 
tionary IDEAL. And all this is in complete 
accord with Herbert Spencer's sound announce¬ 
ment when he says: 

“The particular kind of further evolution 
which Man is hereafter to undergo, is one in 
which, more than any other, may be expected to 
cause a decline in the power of reproduction; 
in the end, therefore, the obtainment of sub¬ 
sistence and the discharge of all parental and 
social duties, will require just that kind and 
that amount of action needful to health and 
happiness." 

XXIV 

I N conclusion permit me to say that some of 
my Readers will perhaps regard these care¬ 
fully deduced Conclusions with fear and 
trembling. But as the History of the Past 
clearly shows, this opposition to Progress is 
nothing new or strange. Every page of History 
is replete with indisputable facts that the timid, 
superstitious Standpatters and Force Advocates 
have always feared and opposed advanced 
methods of Thinking, Living and Working. 

Their alarm and opposition have, however, 
seldom if ever been due to any serious defects 
of the proposed progressive methods, but 


CONCLUSION 


117 


rather to their own comparatively undeveloped 
Minds; primarily to their inability to make 
comprehensive GENERALIZATIONS in the 
matter of human conduct. 

Liberty, Equality of Opportunity, Friendly 
Mutuality and Sound Naturalism have ap¬ 
parently always appeared dangerous and grue¬ 
some to this timid and unprogressive class of 
Humanity. They are not purposely bent on 
doing wrong; they merely lack in modern in¬ 
tellectual light, and for this reason have they 
invariably been willing to sacrifice Truth and 
arrest Progress in order to preserve the ancient 
and the antiquated rather than join the ranks 
of Progress. 

But despite of all designed opposition, will 
the march of Progress continue with increasing 
rapidity, and the writer is only too willing to 
leave the Truth or Error of these carefully de¬ 
duced Conclusions to the best judgment of the 
Coming Generations. 

(Can the Reader think of any good thing 
which this IDEAL CIVILIZATION does not 
have in it, or of any of the present bad things 
which is not eliminated therefrom? If so, will 
the Reader kindly report the same to the 
author, 2219 Larimore Avenue, Omaha, Ne¬ 
braska, for it is the author’s earnest desire 
to get all the possible good and remove all the 
bad ?) 











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